To be honest they'd have a lot less to be afraid of if they'd stop trying to squash it. Squashing it just makes us more angry and gives us more things to talk about and more reason to evangelize.
Left alone without fuel, we have nothing to spread our cause with.
To be completely honest, this is a good idea. Maybe we should try this next time; write him a personal check so that if he does anything but take the check and immediately cash it, he'll have to think about the sorry soul that is donating $500 to him in hopes that he will vote against the TIB.
While there ARE certainly plausible ways that he could have been not guilty AND known where the body is, I would imagine that if he was innocent and knew where the body was that he would, oh, I don't know.... maybe.... CALL THE POLICE AS SOON AS HE KNEW WHERE THE BODY OF HIS DEAD WIFE WAS.
Because of course the police wouldn't think it's you, they're all very nice and rational people. They haven't the slightest desire of pinning murder cases on someone who might be innocent, I mean it's not like their job isn't about locking people away and making examples out of them.
This goes just too far. If there were ever to be a law against free speech, this would be it, because I don't want to listen to what this thing has to say. I value silence. That ear plugs wouldn't work against this thing...
About the only thing I thought they didn't remove was elemental mercury, which you can remove with selective catalytic reduction (turns into mercury oxide, which the scrubbers can then pick up).
I don't even think quality of the monitor has anything to do with it either.
Just turn up the contrast and turn down the brightness.
If you have a funny color balance going on, turn down the blues in a custom color profile. This brings out the reds (relative to the blues) which will further enhance contrast (blue is a contrast destroying color; it is also right next to the hardest color men have detecting, violet).
You can see this for yourself next time you're near some sunglasses. Try on some with yellow, orange, or pink lenses; and look far off into the distance. Particularly if you can look out of the store into a hazy area. Then try on some with blue or purple lenses. The contrast difference is night and day; the extra contrast from the yellow lenses helps your eyes distinguish objects from the grey haze. This is why shooters, skiers, and sometimes wind surfers will go for yellow or pink shades; and almost never blue.
This is when the management and business guys come in, and we tech folk finally get the last laugh.
There's no reason they need a POS terminal to have 2 cores at 2.2Ghz with 6MB of onboard cache-- but if we put it in a system and label it "high end", they think it will help them sell more burgers so they buy it.
He's one of those guys who thinks engineering should be expensive and hard to learn so there are less in the field, so they can charge more.
I'm kinda cool with that, if that were actually what happened. Instead it seems companies like MS fuss that there aren't enough engineers and CS programmers to hire to code for them. Then they ask congress to increase the number of H1-B visas so they can have more labor for cheap from outside the country, willing to work for whatever price the company names because they're afraid they'll get sent back if they're unemployed when their visa expires. Of course what these companies leave out when they complain to congress is that there aren't enough engineers and programmers for the price they're willing to pay. If that happens, it's a free market, just pay more and they will come like they did during the dotcom boom. Apparently it's cheaper to lobby congress than do this.
Going back to what your professor said, most EE books aren't written to teach for this same reason, and the classes aren't taught with teaching in mind, either*. [I can't speak for all, but at least at] GaTech I've noticed that a lot of times the professors will give you the information and the tools to learn the material, but they leave you to connect the dots.
I was angry with this for a while...and still somewhat am, but I realized this is the premium I'm paying for going to GATech out of state-- the diploma they give me that I get to wave to companies interested in hiring me doesn't as much certify that I know lots of material, it certifies that I can carry my own load and figure things out for myself.
This is more important in the work world, because there won't always be a Sr. Engineer assigned to you who you can go bug at any minute of the day-- they have better things to do like attend meetings with management and work on their own design jobs for the company.
What also helped me cope with this was realizing I no longer have to compete with strict and defined, fair rules by which everybody can play. In some ways, having the material "taught" like this was beneficial to me, a native English speaker, because I could follow the complex sentences and concepts better than the Asians who make up 30% of the classes and Indians who make up another 30%.
*It also might just be that I'm average and it takes me longer to get the material. Other students don't seem to get as frustrated as I. There's a lot of smart people here, though.
But Mommy I have been good this year. Sorry Billy Santa dies from global warming, and it all because you had to go back to the house from school because you forgot your lunch.
Well shoot he had it coming, he was giving coal to all the bad people. Kinda self defeating, like giving criminals more guns. The "bad people" that are wasting away our environment get extra coal. They turn around and burn it too, and thus are on Santa's extra-bad list next Christmas, so on and so forth.
So as devil's advocate, that means more water is exposed to the sun and more water is evaporating into moisture, which means more clouds which reflect more sun.
You see we can go on for hours in circles, we just don't have enough data to conclude what's going to happen.
Ice cores are only good for ~100k years due to the laws of diffusion. Beyond that and they're inaccurate as the CO2 has dispersed and is no longer representative of what the level in the air was when that ice was formed.
Yea thanks that's great; I'm quite rusty on history. Wouldn't have thought of that.
I don't believe we're in much danger from Antarctica. It's significantly cooler there than the North pole. Consider:
At the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Station), the average temperature of the coldest month (August) is approximately â"76 F (â" 60 C), and the average temperature of the warmest month (January) is â" 18Â F (â"28.2 C). Records go back at the South Pole to 1957. At the North Pole, long term temperature records aren't available, but in 2003 a live weather camera and an unmanned weather station were installed on the sea ice. During the last 3 years, the daily temperatures have vacillated between about â"40Â F (-40Â C) during December and January to a little above freezing (0Â C) in June, July and August. The seawater below the ice provides enough heat to keep winter temperatures from falling much below about â"40Â F (-40Â C). I suppose all the activity of Santa and his mischievous little helpers, plus 8 or 9 tiny reindeer might be responsible for boosting the temperatures here a little too.
This latest round of cards from Nvidia and ATI seems to have been won by ATI as well. For $300 you can get the AMD 4870, on the performance of the $400 Nvidia 260, and sometimes as good (depending on the game) as the $600 280.
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To be honest they'd have a lot less to be afraid of if they'd stop trying to squash it. Squashing it just makes us more angry and gives us more things to talk about and more reason to evangelize.
Left alone without fuel, we have nothing to spread our cause with.
Michigan has an economy? I thought they ran everybody off?
To be completely honest, this is a good idea. Maybe we should try this next time; write him a personal check so that if he does anything but take the check and immediately cash it, he'll have to think about the sorry soul that is donating $500 to him in hopes that he will vote against the TIB.
and as usual, Ron Paul.
Someone else suggested (here on /.) that a bill like this would come to fruition so that neither Obama, nor McCain, have to vote on this bill.
While there ARE certainly plausible ways that he could have been not guilty AND known where the body is, I would imagine that if he was innocent and knew where the body was that he would, oh, I don't know.... maybe.... CALL THE POLICE AS SOON AS HE KNEW WHERE THE BODY OF HIS DEAD WIFE WAS.
Because of course the police wouldn't think it's you, they're all very nice and rational people. They haven't the slightest desire of pinning murder cases on someone who might be innocent, I mean it's not like their job isn't about locking people away and making examples out of them.
In addition, the Chinese businessmen would be very impressed if an American were able to speak Mandarin. (Chinese friend telling me this).
Won't matter for most of us, only the ones who want to change history.
Just remember to pay off the right people, if you can.
Unfortunately, this time she's not sentient.
This goes just too far. If there were ever to be a law against free speech, this would be it, because I don't want to listen to what this thing has to say. I value silence. That ear plugs wouldn't work against this thing...
Scrubbers?
electrostatic precipitators...
About the only thing I thought they didn't remove was elemental mercury, which you can remove with selective catalytic reduction (turns into mercury oxide, which the scrubbers can then pick up).
I don't even think quality of the monitor has anything to do with it either.
Just turn up the contrast and turn down the brightness.
If you have a funny color balance going on, turn down the blues in a custom color profile. This brings out the reds (relative to the blues) which will further enhance contrast (blue is a contrast destroying color; it is also right next to the hardest color men have detecting, violet).
You can see this for yourself next time you're near some sunglasses. Try on some with yellow, orange, or pink lenses; and look far off into the distance. Particularly if you can look out of the store into a hazy area. Then try on some with blue or purple lenses. The contrast difference is night and day; the extra contrast from the yellow lenses helps your eyes distinguish objects from the grey haze. This is why shooters, skiers, and sometimes wind surfers will go for yellow or pink shades; and almost never blue.
This is when the management and business guys come in, and we tech folk finally get the last laugh.
There's no reason they need a POS terminal to have 2 cores at 2.2Ghz with 6MB of onboard cache-- but if we put it in a system and label it "high end", they think it will help them sell more burgers so they buy it.
additionally, searching a PDF is instantaneous.
IANAP, but don't you need logs to figure out why the server started misbehaving at 00:22 on 2008-06-30?
He's one of those guys who thinks engineering should be expensive and hard to learn so there are less in the field, so they can charge more.
I'm kinda cool with that, if that were actually what happened. Instead it seems companies like MS fuss that there aren't enough engineers and CS programmers to hire to code for them. Then they ask congress to increase the number of H1-B visas so they can have more labor for cheap from outside the country, willing to work for whatever price the company names because they're afraid they'll get sent back if they're unemployed when their visa expires. Of course what these companies leave out when they complain to congress is that there aren't enough engineers and programmers for the price they're willing to pay. If that happens, it's a free market, just pay more and they will come like they did during the dotcom boom. Apparently it's cheaper to lobby congress than do this.
Going back to what your professor said, most EE books aren't written to teach for this same reason, and the classes aren't taught with teaching in mind, either*. [I can't speak for all, but at least at] GaTech I've noticed that a lot of times the professors will give you the information and the tools to learn the material, but they leave you to connect the dots.
I was angry with this for a while...and still somewhat am, but I realized this is the premium I'm paying for going to GATech out of state-- the diploma they give me that I get to wave to companies interested in hiring me doesn't as much certify that I know lots of material, it certifies that I can carry my own load and figure things out for myself.
This is more important in the work world, because there won't always be a Sr. Engineer assigned to you who you can go bug at any minute of the day-- they have better things to do like attend meetings with management and work on their own design jobs for the company.
What also helped me cope with this was realizing I no longer have to compete with strict and defined, fair rules by which everybody can play. In some ways, having the material "taught" like this was beneficial to me, a native English speaker, because I could follow the complex sentences and concepts better than the Asians who make up 30% of the classes and Indians who make up another 30%.
*It also might just be that I'm average and it takes me longer to get the material. Other students don't seem to get as frustrated as I. There's a lot of smart people here, though.
That's what Mozilla Weave does!
A little naive, to say the least...Japanese have the longest average lifespan of any ethnic group. However, they smoke like a chimney.
But Mommy I have been good this year.
Sorry Billy Santa dies from global warming, and it all because you had to go back to the house from school because you forgot your lunch.
Well shoot he had it coming, he was giving coal to all the bad people. Kinda self defeating, like giving criminals more guns. The "bad people" that are wasting away our environment get extra coal. They turn around and burn it too, and thus are on Santa's extra-bad list next Christmas, so on and so forth.
I was a Beakman's World fan. And of course Bill Nye.
So as devil's advocate, that means more water is exposed to the sun and more water is evaporating into moisture, which means more clouds which reflect more sun.
You see we can go on for hours in circles, we just don't have enough data to conclude what's going to happen.
Per capita CO2 emissions are still much, much higher in the US than in China
Duh, they have four times the people that we have.
Ice cores are only good for ~100k years due to the laws of diffusion. Beyond that and they're inaccurate as the CO2 has dispersed and is no longer representative of what the level in the air was when that ice was formed.
Yea thanks that's great; I'm quite rusty on history. Wouldn't have thought of that.
I don't believe we're in much danger from Antarctica. It's significantly cooler there than the North pole. Consider:
At the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Station), the average temperature of the coldest month (August) is approximately â"76 F (â" 60 C), and the average temperature of the warmest month (January) is â" 18Â F (â"28.2 C). Records go back at the South Pole to 1957. At the North Pole, long term temperature records aren't available, but in 2003 a live weather camera and an unmanned weather station were installed on the sea ice. During the last 3 years, the daily temperatures have vacillated between about â"40Â F (-40Â C) during December and January to a little above freezing (0Â C) in June, July and August. The seawater below the ice provides enough heat to keep winter temperatures from falling much below about â"40Â F (-40Â C). I suppose all the activity of Santa and his mischievous little helpers, plus 8 or 9 tiny reindeer might be responsible for boosting the temperatures here a little too.
Taken from NASA.
Might also find this interesting-- AMD/ATI sure has been having a lot of fun lately.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Larrabee-Ray-Tracing,5769.html
This latest round of cards from Nvidia and ATI seems to have been won by ATI as well. For $300 you can get the AMD 4870, on the performance of the $400 Nvidia 260, and sometimes as good (depending on the game) as the $600 280.
Ok lets just do the alternative and legislate ourselves into economic non-competition while China continues to pollute more than us.