BBC news had an article this week about a Canadian printing company that has printed the new Harry Potter book on recycled paper. I assume, but am not certain, that recycled paper costs more. Since these books are written at a level that children can handle, allowing the recycled version to be sold first could have significant benefit.
1) The author would be recognized as environmentally conscious.
2) The target audience (kids) would be learning or reinforcing a critical lesson for their future health.
3) The retail profits could be higher on a per-book basis than if consumers purchased from a strictly financial standpoint (some would rather have the book early for a higher price than wait.)
4) The people who really don't give a rat's ass about the environment or being first to read the book could still purchase it the next day.
Really, you have to get into the gigawatts range to transmit yourself Back to the Future driving the BEHEMOTH-lorian. I think he left the flux capacitor out of the schematic.
It looks like, for the first time I can think of, the consumer is responsible for non-home-made coffee. In the event that coffee is purchased in stores to-go, the cups contain CYA disclaimers that the coffee is hot and can scald. This coffee, from the pictures I saw, has no disclaimer for its dangers. Many consumers will have little idea how the cup "magically" heats itself. Is the pushing of a button on a cup enough action on the consumer's part to save the company from all liability?
Georgia Tech ME is obsessed with HC11 evaluation boards. What is their #1 reason to come to Grad school? The potential to use the same old equipment as used in undergrad intoductory lab sections, of course!
If, among other benefits such as substantial paychecks, private industries have better microcontrollers with non-BASIC11 interfaces then the BSME->Industry->MBA track seems much better than BSME->MSME.
The voltage from my idle memory cycles goes through a series of capacitors and ICs to make my fancy-dancy lights blink so I won't have to buy new computers and waste power - and all of this is within a 133 MHz underclocked pentium box with 32 MB ram running linux.
Because too many slashdot users block ads, auto-generated, inline ads would be ineffective. Instead slashdot comments with genuine HTML links are use for this advertisement. So what if somebody makes money on each click? It is not like these sites cannot hold up to high volumes of traffic.
Three cheers for the only slashdot article ever to not need mirrors!
You summarized Atlanta's traffic dangers quite well. My girlfriend's only accident was when some lady couldn't wait to get around an accident scene on 285 and tried to merge through her rear quarterpanel. I do think GPS tracking would do quite a lot to settle disputes of "it's his fault" "no its not it's his fault" but a massive database would be necessary to keep such data. The only other real traffic issue in Atlanta is that of idiots maxing out their windshield wipers, swerving, and putting on their hazard lights at the first drop of rain.
I am sure it is hard to imagine, as I myself have seen the Hugh Jackman movie, but "Young Van Helsing" was worse. At least the hollywood movie had an effects budget.
Some of the cheapest DVDs blatantly copy the titles of current movies. A good time can be had by all so long as you choose the worst of the worst.
If you are lucky enough to find these stupidly cheap DVDs, choose one that has a great knockoff title. I have watched "Young Van Helsing" which had nothing but a title including Van Helsing going for it. The plot was weak, the dialogue was weak, and the acting was... (take a wild guess). Even better, the DVD included a trailer for "Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings," a story of a school-aged magician (hrmmm) and a bunch of monsters after a ring (hrmmm#2.) If you're going to watch knockoffs, be sure to have several wise-cracking friends (assuming you have friends) and lots of beer for the screening.
Despite the apparent calm at IKEA Atlanta's grand opening this week, the damage was already done. To confiscate computers without disrupting the flow of office demo displays The Man gutted all HP desktops and laptops before opening day leaving only shells.
Nothing to see here, soccer moms and Jeff Foxworthy fans. Move on along.
I know nothing of speakeasy, but Comcast's on-site support is horrendous. Comcast process:
1)After multiple complaints dispatch technician
2)Pretend work has actually been done
3)???
4)Fail!... and profit:(
Am I geographically lost, living in Atlanta, GA? I thought California had coasts facing mostly West and South. I think "in the Pacific ocean West of Northern California" would be a bit clearer. California, to my knowledge, has no Northern Coast. So watch out for them land-bound tsunamis or the terrorists have won.
Why didn't the part about "much more smaller" chafe your ass as well as the double negative? I thought the purpose of "smaller" was to avoid saying "more small." Isn't the word "much" for adding emphasis in unquantifiable terms just as can be done using the word "very?"
I think there is a significant gain to be had in planning. In large suburban areas it is easy to get lost in a neighborhood of cookie-cutter homes that are merely variations on one design, often with decorative but impractical house numbering.
"Turn left onto Soccermom St., #235 across the from the hideous, vomit-green vinyl-sided house with 3-car garage."
rather than
"Turn left onto Soccermom St., #235 across the street from the house with the roof of dimensions approximately 60x40 feet."
Exactly. There are times for "ooh" and "aah" but seriously what is gained from open sourcing trippy visualizations? More developers will spend more time dicking with the output of a closed program for a closed OS. I think the real concern is that these cats are listening to music so crappy that they have no choice but to watch trippy visualizations or the music would be intolerable.
Is it strictly a/. phenomenon that rich bastards, etc. loose things instead of losing them? Maybe this spelling anomaly is confined to those in the community who do not use banks but instead stuff their hard-earned dollars in holes strategically cut into hard-to-find places on their mattresses. I hope they do not loose their secret mattress treasure maps.
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BBC news had an article this week about a Canadian printing company that has printed the new Harry Potter book on recycled paper. I assume, but am not certain, that recycled paper costs more. Since these books are written at a level that children can handle, allowing the recycled version to be sold first could have significant benefit.
1) The author would be recognized as environmentally conscious.
2) The target audience (kids) would be learning or reinforcing a critical lesson for their future health.
3) The retail profits could be higher on a per-book basis than if consumers purchased from a strictly financial standpoint (some would rather have the book early for a higher price than wait.)
4) The people who really don't give a rat's ass about the environment or being first to read the book could still purchase it the next day.
preservus environmentus!
Really, you have to get into the gigawatts range to transmit yourself Back to the Future driving the BEHEMOTH-lorian. I think he left the flux capacitor out of the schematic.
It looks like, for the first time I can think of, the consumer is responsible for non-home-made coffee. In the event that coffee is purchased in stores to-go, the cups contain CYA disclaimers that the coffee is hot and can scald. This coffee, from the pictures I saw, has no disclaimer for its dangers. Many consumers will have little idea how the cup "magically" heats itself.
Is the pushing of a button on a cup enough action on the consumer's part to save the company from all liability?
To hell with Georgia!
Georgia Tech ME is obsessed with HC11 evaluation boards.
What is their #1 reason to come to Grad school?
The potential to use the same old equipment as used in undergrad intoductory lab sections, of course!
If, among other benefits such as substantial paychecks, private industries have better microcontrollers with non-BASIC11 interfaces then the BSME->Industry->MBA track seems much better than BSME->MSME.
information sells you!
Amazon.com needs a wish list for its anniversary or it will get entirely too many flowers.
The voltage from my idle memory cycles goes through a series of capacitors and ICs to make my fancy-dancy lights blink so I won't have to buy new computers and waste power - and all of this is within a 133 MHz underclocked pentium box with 32 MB ram running linux.
I'm saving the world!
Because too many slashdot users block ads, auto-generated, inline ads would be ineffective. Instead slashdot comments with genuine HTML links are use for this advertisement. So what if somebody makes money on each click? It is not like these sites cannot hold up to high volumes of traffic.
Three cheers for the only slashdot article ever to not need mirrors!
mmmmmmmm Sriracha! I go through a bottle of that stuff every month. So much better than "cajun" hot sauce.
I waldorfed violently from my balcony when I saw that muppets were being abused. Do we call PETA or ACLU on this one?
You summarized Atlanta's traffic dangers quite well. My girlfriend's only accident was when some lady couldn't wait to get around an accident scene on 285 and tried to merge through her rear quarterpanel. I do think GPS tracking would do quite a lot to settle disputes of "it's his fault" "no its not it's his fault" but a massive database would be necessary to keep such data. The only other real traffic issue in Atlanta is that of idiots maxing out their windshield wipers, swerving, and putting on their hazard lights at the first drop of rain.
I am sure it is hard to imagine, as I myself have seen the Hugh Jackman movie, but "Young Van Helsing" was worse. At least the hollywood movie had an effects budget.
Some of the cheapest DVDs blatantly copy the titles of current movies. A good time can be had by all so long as you choose the worst of the worst.
If you are lucky enough to find these stupidly cheap DVDs, choose one that has a great knockoff title. I have watched "Young Van Helsing" which had nothing but a title including Van Helsing going for it. The plot was weak, the dialogue was weak, and the acting was... (take a wild guess). Even better, the DVD included a trailer for "Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings," a story of a school-aged magician (hrmmm) and a bunch of monsters after a ring (hrmmm#2.)
If you're going to watch knockoffs, be sure to have several wise-cracking friends (assuming you have friends) and lots of beer for the screening.
Heavy Metal planets are so Hard Core.
car.tel
Despite the apparent calm at IKEA Atlanta's grand opening this week, the damage was already done. To confiscate computers without disrupting the flow of office demo displays The Man gutted all HP desktops and laptops before opening day leaving only shells.
Nothing to see here, soccer moms and Jeff Foxworthy fans. Move on along.
I know nothing of speakeasy, but Comcast's on-site support is horrendous. Comcast process: 1)After multiple complaints dispatch technician 2)Pretend work has actually been done 3)??? 4)Fail!... and profit :(
Am I geographically lost, living in Atlanta, GA? I thought California had coasts facing mostly West and South. I think "in the Pacific ocean West of Northern California" would be a bit clearer. California, to my knowledge, has no Northern Coast. So watch out for them land-bound tsunamis or the terrorists have won.
Why didn't the part about "much more smaller" chafe your ass as well as the double negative? I thought the purpose of "smaller" was to avoid saying "more small." Isn't the word "much" for adding emphasis in unquantifiable terms just as can be done using the word "very?"
I think there is a significant gain to be had in planning. In large suburban areas it is easy to get lost in a neighborhood of cookie-cutter homes that are merely variations on one design, often with decorative but impractical house numbering. "Turn left onto Soccermom St., #235 across the from the hideous, vomit-green vinyl-sided house with 3-car garage." rather than "Turn left onto Soccermom St., #235 across the street from the house with the roof of dimensions approximately 60x40 feet."
Exactly. There are times for "ooh" and "aah" but seriously what is gained from open sourcing trippy visualizations? More developers will spend more time dicking with the output of a closed program for a closed OS. I think the real concern is that these cats are listening to music so crappy that they have no choice but to watch trippy visualizations or the music would be intolerable.
Is it strictly a /. phenomenon that rich bastards, etc. loose things instead of losing them? Maybe this spelling anomaly is confined to those in the community who do not use banks but instead stuff their hard-earned dollars in holes strategically cut into hard-to-find places on their mattresses. I hope they do not loose their secret mattress treasure maps.