that, and with every 'in browser' PDF viewer i've used in the past 4 years, its sort of a dice roll. usually about a 2 in 6 chance that the browser crashes trying to fire up the PDF file.
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what? late fees? you use the service, and agree to 1$ per day that the movie is not returned. You fail to return it, you get a 25$ dollar DVD without the case.
and 1.20$ still being less than half what the local 'brick and mortar' video rental place charges per day, I see myself still using redbox to watch a few new releases. (and grab traveling movies)
also, when standing still, with feet generally next to each other, and taking a step forward, you usually will lead with your dominant leg. (that leg moves forward first)
true, but the way they apply that power to forward locomotion would be very simple i suspect. Think of it the way you walk, To a degree, walking is leaning your weight forward, and taking a step to catch yourself before you fall on your face. then you do it again. and again, and again. This robot is the part that takes the step and catches the weight, all you have to do is make a part that moves the weight. Instead of using power to bend each joint and move each part, the power is dedicated to simply moving the center of gravity forward, inducing a step. as the step is taken, the center is relocated via inertial forces, and the mechanism moves it forward again, inducing another step.
really? i was under the impression that a major portion of the native american population was at least semi nomadic, with only a small portion being agrarian societies. If you can show me solid evidence that I am miss-informed, I would be most appreciative.
I was noticing that. the summary contradicts itself. It says that the discovery caused cooling, then says that the trees reduce carbon, which reduces the heat trapping of the atmosphere. If the trees where removed and burned, increasing carbon, would not there be a warming effect from the increased heat trapping? Bad summary i suspect, but it still does not make sense to me.
You are right about all that, but i have to say, Siri just *seems* new, because no one bothered to put spit and Polish on any of the aforementioned products, and throw a huge party and press release about it.
I think the point of Siri is the fact that it *lacks* the (very simple) syntax. You talk to it. With simple syntax, you sound like you are either talking to an idiot, or a phone, which is what makes people feel uncomfortable with voice command.
How did you track and recover your Rocket? I did not notice anything in the video referring to this. Was it purely visual? or was the on board GPS web linked, allowing you to see its location?
yeaaah...... its not the exact same thing, but watch this, it explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVG6c_OvYU
copper is non magnetic, but the magnet induces a current as it falls, the current creating a magnetic field, which interferes with the falling of the magnet, slowing it. The same effect would happen with aluminum tubing as well (as aluminum is conductive) In theory, a piece of aluminum or copper dropped in a magnetic room would experience the same effect.
honestly, It seems really odd to me that entire structural members could become magnetized incidentally during construction (magnetizing something that large is not exactly easy) Makes me wonder if its actually related to the electrical system in the building, not the structure itself.
This person is right. I have family members that spend a quarter of the year in china, and that is what they do. Buy a sim card, put in in their preferred phone, and carry on with life. If you are worried about people in the states being able to call you, I can't say much for international phone cards and whatnot, they are pretty unreliable as far as I've seen. We've taken to using skype to call into china, which works far better, and is not particularly expensive.
I was curious about this, so i did some reading on other vaccine trials.
turns out, they are not looking for you to not/get the disease, they are looking for you to develop successful antibodies. (which they can test by taking a blood sample, and infecting it and watching under a microscope).
Additionally, 90% seems to be the benchmark for a useable vaccine. For example, the final tests for some of the Polio vaccines resulted in 90%ish of the test subjects developing antibodies. After that, its basically a war of attrition on the disease.
If 90% of a population becomes immune, the chances of the disease spreading within it diminishes accordingly. Eventually, all live carriers die of old age or the disease, and no new carriers are produced, thus eliminating the disease from the population. Heck, even a 55 % successful vaccine could do this, it would just take longer.
Now there is something I've never understood. We keep trotting around the globe, trying to foist 'Democracy' on various nations, saying how great it is, when we don't even have one ourselves. We have something of a Representative Republic, with democratic aspects, but not a true democracy.
like Winston Churchhill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"
My real question in all of this is, Who is asking for this information? It seems to me, that time and time again, Company X or Company Y updates its TOS, or has some flaw in software that reveals that they are gathering personal information, for 'sale to third parties' or the slightly less unsettling 'Company X will in no way make this information available to third parties'.
On the surface, the claim is that it is to provide a better service down the road, or to provide more targeted ad's or in some way improve the customer experience in some bizarre and personal way.
The real problem is, Time and time again when this comes out, We, the Customers, seem to resoundingly land on the side of 'don't watch me!' which begs the question: 'What market research idiot keeps thinking this is a good idea?'
The overwhelming sense i get from public response to this sort of thing is that we are not interested in targeted ad's, we do not want the commercials on our TV to say our names, and we don't want our driving directions to take us past some dry cleaners, just because we googled it last week.
Now, I'm not an idiot, and realize that most companies will ignore their customers as long as possible, as long as they still make a profit, but you have to expect there to be some kind of limit, where someone finally steps back and says 'holy shit, people are going to HATE this!'
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i don't own a 3 sided dice?
that, and with every 'in browser' PDF viewer i've used in the past 4 years, its sort of a dice roll. usually about a 2 in 6 chance that the browser crashes trying to fire up the PDF file.
that...that is brilliant!
what? late fees? you use the service, and agree to 1$ per day that the movie is not returned. You fail to return it, you get a 25$ dollar DVD without the case.
and 1.20$ still being less than half what the local 'brick and mortar' video rental place charges per day, I see myself still using redbox to watch a few new releases. (and grab traveling movies)
also, when standing still, with feet generally next to each other, and taking a step forward, you usually will lead with your dominant leg. (that leg moves forward first)
true, but the way they apply that power to forward locomotion would be very simple i suspect. Think of it the way you walk, To a degree, walking is leaning your weight forward, and taking a step to catch yourself before you fall on your face. then you do it again. and again, and again. This robot is the part that takes the step and catches the weight, all you have to do is make a part that moves the weight. Instead of using power to bend each joint and move each part, the power is dedicated to simply moving the center of gravity forward, inducing a step. as the step is taken, the center is relocated via inertial forces, and the mechanism moves it forward again, inducing another step.
“Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”
really? i was under the impression that a major portion of the native american population was at least semi nomadic, with only a small portion being agrarian societies. If you can show me solid evidence that I am miss-informed, I would be most appreciative.
I was noticing that. the summary contradicts itself. It says that the discovery caused cooling, then says that the trees reduce carbon, which reduces the heat trapping of the atmosphere. If the trees where removed and burned, increasing carbon, would not there be a warming effect from the increased heat trapping? Bad summary i suspect, but it still does not make sense to me.
i'll take that off your hands for the cost of shipping.
My uncle used wildfire for a long time. stopped using it when smartphones got big.
You are right about all that, but i have to say, Siri just *seems* new, because no one bothered to put spit and Polish on any of the aforementioned products, and throw a huge party and press release about it.
I think the point of Siri is the fact that it *lacks* the (very simple) syntax. You talk to it. With simple syntax, you sound like you are either talking to an idiot, or a phone, which is what makes people feel uncomfortable with voice command.
How did you track and recover your Rocket? I did not notice anything in the video referring to this. Was it purely visual? or was the on board GPS web linked, allowing you to see its location?
yeaaah...... its not the exact same thing, but watch this, it explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVG6c_OvYU
copper is non magnetic, but the magnet induces a current as it falls, the current creating a magnetic field, which interferes with the falling of the magnet, slowing it. The same effect would happen with aluminum tubing as well (as aluminum is conductive) In theory, a piece of aluminum or copper dropped in a magnetic room would experience the same effect.
honestly, It seems really odd to me that entire structural members could become magnetized incidentally during construction (magnetizing something that large is not exactly easy) Makes me wonder if its actually related to the electrical system in the building, not the structure itself.
bit thats India. OP is asking about China.
This person is right. I have family members that spend a quarter of the year in china, and that is what they do. Buy a sim card, put in in their preferred phone, and carry on with life. If you are worried about people in the states being able to call you, I can't say much for international phone cards and whatnot, they are pretty unreliable as far as I've seen. We've taken to using skype to call into china, which works far better, and is not particularly expensive.
why is there never a -1 wrong moderation?
the platters of a hard drive are NOT glass.
thermite. It makes everything better.
you give them the vaccine, wait a while, draw blood, expose that blood to the disease, then watch under a scope and see what happens.
I was curious about this, so i did some reading on other vaccine trials.
turns out, they are not looking for you to not/get the disease, they are looking for you to develop successful antibodies. (which they can test by taking a blood sample, and infecting it and watching under a microscope).
Additionally, 90% seems to be the benchmark for a useable vaccine. For example, the final tests for some of the Polio vaccines resulted in 90%ish of the test subjects developing antibodies. After that, its basically a war of attrition on the disease.
If 90% of a population becomes immune, the chances of the disease spreading within it diminishes accordingly. Eventually, all live carriers die of old age or the disease, and no new carriers are produced, thus eliminating the disease from the population. Heck, even a 55 % successful vaccine could do this, it would just take longer.
Now there is something I've never understood. We keep trotting around the globe, trying to foist 'Democracy' on various nations, saying how great it is, when we don't even have one ourselves. We have something of a Representative Republic, with democratic aspects, but not a true democracy.
like Winston Churchhill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"
My real question in all of this is, Who is asking for this information? It seems to me, that time and time again, Company X or Company Y updates its TOS, or has some flaw in software that reveals that they are gathering personal information, for 'sale to third parties' or the slightly less unsettling 'Company X will in no way make this information available to third parties'.
On the surface, the claim is that it is to provide a better service down the road, or to provide more targeted ad's or in some way improve the customer experience in some bizarre and personal way.
The real problem is, Time and time again when this comes out, We, the Customers, seem to resoundingly land on the side of 'don't watch me!' which begs the question: 'What market research idiot keeps thinking this is a good idea?'
The overwhelming sense i get from public response to this sort of thing is that we are not interested in targeted ad's, we do not want the commercials on our TV to say our names, and we don't want our driving directions to take us past some dry cleaners, just because we googled it last week. Now, I'm not an idiot, and realize that most companies will ignore their customers as long as possible, as long as they still make a profit, but you have to expect there to be some kind of limit, where someone finally steps back and says 'holy shit, people are going to HATE this!'