How much radiation is this thing shooting directly into my head?
Aside from the visible light spectrum, it also has a Bluetooth receiver/transmitter. So probably 1W/m^2 is my best guess (and its probably a poor guess).
Weight is only a factor on takeoff or climbing. Cruising and descent, weight isn't much of factor. Only other point would be during reverse thrusting on landing.
I disagree. In order to maintain a constant cruising velocity, the airplane still has to exert a constant force to counter drag and gravity, and that force is directly proportional to the mass of the airplane (as well as its cruising velocity). More mass means more force needed.
If you say that a Boeing 737 has a mass of ~40,000 kilograms (a ballpark estimate, not counting fuel), and each Boeing 737 has a seating capacity of ~180 passengers (another ballpark estimate), each passenger would be responsible for ~222 kilograms of plane in addition to their own mass and cargo they bring aboard. And keep in mind that the average adult human has a mass of 60 to 80 kilograms.
It appears that their cost formula is a strictly linear equation:
Cost (price) = weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)
Though their cost formula doesn't take into account the amount of airplane that each person also needs to haul around in addition to themselves; the price to fly children is disproportionately cheap, while larger adults are disproportionately expnsive.
I probably would have priced it as such if my goal were to meet expenses
Cost (price) = fixed_cost (price) + weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)
This happens pretty much every update cycle. The new OS is still terrible and unfamiliar and incompatible, and the old OS still has good availability. The only difference this time is that somebody wrote an article about.
Strange, I don't recall this being the case with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Windows XP built on the NT4 kernel that Windows 2000 solidified, and added crucial Win9x software compatibility. It effectively replaced both Win9x and Win2k in one fell swoop.
While Windows Vista was widely panned compared to Windows XP (and for good reason), it was a technically better OS than XP; it just couldn't overcome the flaws. Windows 7 fixed everything that was wrong with Windows Vista, and rapidly displaced Windows Vista sales. 7 is also a better product than XP, though the system requirements are substantially higher. Most consumers that stubbornly held onto XP were because they didn't want to do a hardware upgrade, even though 7 is a much better OS.
So, 0% of British PCs may be sold with Windows 7 on them?
That terminology bugs me.
From TFA:
Redford's Computer Planet isn't the only British firm struggling with the launch of Windows 8. One company told us that of the 1,459 machines it's sold so far in 2013, only 7% have left the factory with Windows 8 installed. A spokesman said that "Windows 7 fulfils the requirements" of its customers, and that driver issues and the unfamiliarity of the new OS was putting people off.
The only objective to ban plastic bags was to minimize the costs to supermarkets.
Considering the amount of money that Walmart has invested in useless plastic bag carousels at their checkout lanes, I'd say the cost of the bags themselves to the retailers is pretty trivial.
It was a disgusting lobby with an "eco friendly" excuse.
Probably.
There is no chance in hell they will distribute paper bags or any non re-utilizable bag.
Most grocery chains in Arizona (unless you count Walmart as a grocery chain) offer paper, plastic, and reusable. Plastic is ---by far--- the most common choice.
Just an observation: Doesn't food usually have its own packaging/wrappers to protect it from the filthy bags?
Fruits and vegetables don't usually come prepackaged, at least in the US. Most meats are packaged, but also tend to leak. Just about everything else comes prepackaged.
I'm wondering if there's a difference between paper bag users and plastic bag users. Not routinely washing a reusable bag is a plausible source for disease, but it isn't the only thing to consider.
Water that is absorbed by the ground and isn't directed into aquifers or similar structures is effectively lost. The rest is lost to the ocean or to evaporation. Granted, you could desalinate the ocean, but then the question becomes what to do with the leftover material, which is an environmental issue unto itself.
At least in my local neighborhood, most ISPs frown on running an internet server of any kind out of your house, even Minecraft servers. That is, unless you opt for a business internet account, which adds substantial cost to your internet service over a standard home account. That cost alone will easily eat into the savings you have from running the hardware out of your home instead of a VPS.
Of course, most business internet accounts are also bandwidth unlocked, so there is that.
It just drives me absolutely crazy that low end hard drives are as expensive as they are, and stubbornly not dropping. Take for example these prices on Newegg for a new internal desktop hard drive:
250GB - $49.99 ($2.00 per 10 gigabytes) 320GB - $59.99 ($1.87 per 10 gigabytes) 500GB - $58.99 ($1.18 per 10 gigabytes) 1TB - $79.99 ($0.80 per 10 gigabytes)
I mean, don't get me wrong, the 1 terabytes are an attractive price on a price-per-gigabyte point of view. But there are times where you simply don't need (or want) a large drive, and a small one would do, or your budget for a larger one doesn't exist and you need a smaller drive. But the price per gigabyte is so out of whack on the low end models, it doesn't make sense to waste your money. You'd think stores and suppliers would want to dump their low end inventory for the larger capacities, but apparently they aren't in any hurry.
Don't expect LGA sockets to go away completely. Maybe low and mid-range chips will go BGA, but high-end chips will likely be LGA for the forseeable future. At least in this humble geek's opinion.
So long as the partial pressure of oxygen remains above 16kPa (in Earth's atmosphere at STP the PP of oxygen is about 21kPa) you generally aren't at risk of hypoxia. Coincidentally, the PP of oxygen doesn't drop below 16kPa until about 10,000 ft.
If they support that notion they weaken the argument against their prime target, CO2, since it has no ill health effects until you have enough of it around you to displace the oxygen you need.
Actually, CO2 is toxic at concentrations above 1%, and can cause suffocation and blood poisoning when concentrations are around 10%, and not just because it displaces oxygen. That's exactly what happened on Apollo 13: Carbon dioxide concentrations were too high, despite Oxygen levels remaining normal.
It's something that MMO players have had to deal with for some time, and now it's something Facebook gamers now have to deal with: Money you throw at online games, be it in the form of microtransactions or subscriptions, is of little long-term value. You might get enjoyment out of it now, but that doesn't mean the game will be around tomorrow.
Let this be a lesson to people that haven't learned it yet.
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How much radiation is this thing shooting directly into my head?
Aside from the visible light spectrum, it also has a Bluetooth receiver/transmitter. So probably 1W/m^2 is my best guess (and its probably a poor guess).
Weight is only a factor on takeoff or climbing. Cruising and descent, weight isn't much of factor. Only other point would be during reverse thrusting on landing.
I disagree. In order to maintain a constant cruising velocity, the airplane still has to exert a constant force to counter drag and gravity, and that force is directly proportional to the mass of the airplane (as well as its cruising velocity). More mass means more force needed.
If you say that a Boeing 737 has a mass of ~40,000 kilograms (a ballpark estimate, not counting fuel), and each Boeing 737 has a seating capacity of ~180 passengers (another ballpark estimate), each passenger would be responsible for ~222 kilograms of plane in addition to their own mass and cargo they bring aboard. And keep in mind that the average adult human has a mass of 60 to 80 kilograms.
Never said my equation wasn't linear either! I'm basically just changing the Y-intercept of the equation and the slope.
You mean they don't already?
It appears that their cost formula is a strictly linear equation:
Cost (price) = weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)
Though their cost formula doesn't take into account the amount of airplane that each person also needs to haul around in addition to themselves; the price to fly children is disproportionately cheap, while larger adults are disproportionately expnsive.
I probably would have priced it as such if my goal were to meet expenses
Cost (price) = fixed_cost (price) + weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)
Atari is only the second company I know of that offers a sabbatical after 7 years, the first being Intel.
Maybe your plants do. My plants are powered by the sun, and only emit CO2 during construction and demolition.
This happens pretty much every update cycle. The new OS is still terrible and unfamiliar and incompatible, and the old OS still has good availability. The only difference this time is that somebody wrote an article about.
Strange, I don't recall this being the case with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Windows XP built on the NT4 kernel that Windows 2000 solidified, and added crucial Win9x software compatibility. It effectively replaced both Win9x and Win2k in one fell swoop.
While Windows Vista was widely panned compared to Windows XP (and for good reason), it was a technically better OS than XP; it just couldn't overcome the flaws. Windows 7 fixed everything that was wrong with Windows Vista, and rapidly displaced Windows Vista sales. 7 is also a better product than XP, though the system requirements are substantially higher. Most consumers that stubbornly held onto XP were because they didn't want to do a hardware upgrade, even though 7 is a much better OS.
Up to?
So, 0% of British PCs may be sold with Windows 7 on them?
That terminology bugs me.
From TFA:
Redford's Computer Planet isn't the only British firm struggling with the launch of Windows 8. One company told us that of the 1,459 machines it's sold so far in 2013, only 7% have left the factory with Windows 8 installed. A spokesman said that "Windows 7 fulfils the requirements" of its customers, and that driver issues and the unfamiliarity of the new OS was putting people off.
From the sounds of it, the cotton and paper industries are in need of manufacturing improvements of some kind.
The only objective to ban plastic bags was to minimize the costs to supermarkets.
Considering the amount of money that Walmart has invested in useless plastic bag carousels at their checkout lanes, I'd say the cost of the bags themselves to the retailers is pretty trivial.
It was a disgusting lobby with an "eco friendly" excuse.
Probably.
There is no chance in hell they will distribute paper bags or any non re-utilizable bag.
Most grocery chains in Arizona (unless you count Walmart as a grocery chain) offer paper, plastic, and reusable. Plastic is ---by far--- the most common choice.
Just an observation: Doesn't food usually have its own packaging/wrappers to protect it from the filthy bags?
Fruits and vegetables don't usually come prepackaged, at least in the US. Most meats are packaged, but also tend to leak. Just about everything else comes prepackaged.
I'm wondering if there's a difference between paper bag users and plastic bag users. Not routinely washing a reusable bag is a plausible source for disease, but it isn't the only thing to consider.
Water that is absorbed by the ground and isn't directed into aquifers or similar structures is effectively lost. The rest is lost to the ocean or to evaporation. Granted, you could desalinate the ocean, but then the question becomes what to do with the leftover material, which is an environmental issue unto itself.
The States are not bound by the 1st amendment. Only the Federal government is.
At least in my local neighborhood, most ISPs frown on running an internet server of any kind out of your house, even Minecraft servers. That is, unless you opt for a business internet account, which adds substantial cost to your internet service over a standard home account. That cost alone will easily eat into the savings you have from running the hardware out of your home instead of a VPS.
Of course, most business internet accounts are also bandwidth unlocked, so there is that.
Cinco de Mayo is almost a holiday in Arizona.
It just drives me absolutely crazy that low end hard drives are as expensive as they are, and stubbornly not dropping. Take for example these prices on Newegg for a new internal desktop hard drive:
250GB - $49.99 ($2.00 per 10 gigabytes)
320GB - $59.99 ($1.87 per 10 gigabytes)
500GB - $58.99 ($1.18 per 10 gigabytes)
1TB - $79.99 ($0.80 per 10 gigabytes)
I mean, don't get me wrong, the 1 terabytes are an attractive price on a price-per-gigabyte point of view. But there are times where you simply don't need (or want) a large drive, and a small one would do, or your budget for a larger one doesn't exist and you need a smaller drive. But the price per gigabyte is so out of whack on the low end models, it doesn't make sense to waste your money. You'd think stores and suppliers would want to dump their low end inventory for the larger capacities, but apparently they aren't in any hurry.
IANAL, but I would also ask for proof that they actually own the patent, or are legal representatives of the patent owner.
Don't expect LGA sockets to go away completely. Maybe low and mid-range chips will go BGA, but high-end chips will likely be LGA for the forseeable future. At least in this humble geek's opinion.
So long as the partial pressure of oxygen remains above 16kPa (in Earth's atmosphere at STP the PP of oxygen is about 21kPa) you generally aren't at risk of hypoxia. Coincidentally, the PP of oxygen doesn't drop below 16kPa until about 10,000 ft.
If they support that notion they weaken the argument against their prime target, CO2, since it has no ill health effects until you have enough of it around you to displace the oxygen you need.
Actually, CO2 is toxic at concentrations above 1%, and can cause suffocation and blood poisoning when concentrations are around 10%, and not just because it displaces oxygen. That's exactly what happened on Apollo 13: Carbon dioxide concentrations were too high, despite Oxygen levels remaining normal.
It's something that MMO players have had to deal with for some time, and now it's something Facebook gamers now have to deal with: Money you throw at online games, be it in the form of microtransactions or subscriptions, is of little long-term value. You might get enjoyment out of it now, but that doesn't mean the game will be around tomorrow.
Let this be a lesson to people that haven't learned it yet.
sudo apt-get purge unity-lens-shopping
Problem solved.
Or just don't install Unity.
A brilliant idea for sure, but couldn't you get nearly the same results by implementing crosswalk timers and for less cost?