We were told, back then, to believe what numbers they said. Now we're told to believe these new numbers because they "know better" in these enlightened times.
WHY didn't they know better back then to see that x-weight + x-diet + x-lifestyle killed x-people with >130/80 BP?
It's all statistics, and simply counting heads never changes.
At the general public level, people are often misled by their lack of common sense, their deficiency in understanding statistics and basic science, and therefore fall victim to the lies of the myriad charlatans that claim to have something that fixes everything.
...why so many are gonna vote for "salt-'n-pepper" in the coming election.
I maintain a functioning Apple][+ and it's still my favorite graphics game on that machine (those of you who have played it: imagine it on a widescreen LCD!).:)
Oh, yeah, and I still play id's first version on my MacPro.
They'd never show the opening ceremonies live - those three 4$$h0l3$ reading the commentary can't possibly THINK fast enough to do it live, they had to voice-over the production to get parts of it right, you could see/hear the slight difference even on videotape.
Crowd noises were inconsistent, quality was crappy, editing was out of sequence - a blind, hydrocephalic, legless, autistic dead man with iMovie could've done a better job.
After all the criticism of previous olympic shows for exactly the same tape-delaying you'd think they'd AT LEAST run the opening/closing ceremonies on-time.
The earliest olympics I was old enough to appreciate was Tokyo in '64 and even though the satellite-relayed pictures were grainy and noisy I can remember thinking "gee, this is happening on the other side of the world RIGHT NOW..." and it was awesome to realize that even though it was an event a half-a-world away from me I could see it (essentially) immediately. The world stopped seeming unimaginably large right at that moment.
Too bad "Nothing But Crap" can't see their way clear to keep even THAT four hours of the games live (well, AND the closing ceremonies) - the rest of the games don't matter as much, but there's somethng special about seeing the opening/closing live from the other side of the planet. (/soppy_romanticism)
It's a shame no individuals picked up on your movie reference (I'll leave it to the Enlightened to pick the right one - broad hint: the average of two consecutive prime numbers).:)
Any idea what solar radiation pressure is at, say, 1 AU? I would imagine that it does an inverse-square drop-off as the distance increases, neglecting CME's and other transients.
Yeah, true - the new tech does cost more - but doesn't necessarily have to be used for a cheap reader. Apple's first laptops were 'sunlit' LCD displays and though they were low-resolution (72 DPI, wasn't it?) they were decently readable under room lighting, for me anyway. Isn't OLPC also a sunlit screen?
Is eyestrain from looking at your lit Palm screen due to size, contrast, or quality? I have to read a LOT of plaintext documentation on screens at work and one of the best things I have in the Mac OS is control-option-command-8: it inverts the screen colors so I can see white-on-black text which is 'way easier on my eyes and I can run for longer sessions without killing my eyes. I've seen e-book screens and, still, the black-on-white text is too washed-out for my tastes.
I didn't include HTML because (AFAIK) you can't embed images in it - it requires a separate folder to hold all the imagery, unlike PDF. Text-only HTML, though, okay. Adaptation: every file reader I've seen can wrap text to the width and can change sizes too...
Well yeah, e-ink screens aren't good for fast refresh rates - you want to read a static page then they're okay, you want movies go buy a player.:)
My point was why can't "they" just add text-capabilities to current DVD players as a reasonable bridge between the two uses: less horsepower required to do text so the batteries should last longer, the ability to still use it for movies, an invert option for text would be nice, full color for page illustrations, and a semi-reasonable size (_I_ don't need something small enough to sit-upon in my back pocket, i.e. iPhone or iPodTouch) for the use.
No no no - the girls were the GOOD GUYS, remember? That big trenchcoated mook with the glasses was one of the bad guys. And he dead now. Awesome anime - did they ever do more?
...get everybody to walk in lockstep to synchronize the pumping action? With random footfalls you'd have to have a LOT of smallish pumping cells with a lot of valves to keep it all flowing properly.
TFA: "It works by using the pressure of feet on the floor to compress pads underneath, driving fluid through mini-turbines that then generate electricity, which is stored in a battery."
Why is it that I'd have to spend >$300 for an e-book reader when I can pick up a portable DVD player (that has MORE 'computing power' in it) in a blister package at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, etc. for under $99?
I'd rather see something along the lines of a player that could handle TXT & RTF & PDF files and put them on the screen (as well as play movies). I could burn my stuff to a CD or DVD, drop it in the unit, and carry all the books I wanted. Give it a USB port for a thumb-ball or mouse for navigation, or keyboard for searching, and I'll bet people would snap 'em up in a minute.
My doctor has to send all his stuff to Medicare either by mail or fax or a phone modem direct to their number, using their app on his winbox (I've had to set it up for him every time he's gotten a new machine). THEY still don't connect directly to the internet...
You should be able to verify this with your doctor.
Hospitals and agencies may try to jazz the system, but Medicare doesn't have to suffer electronic break-ins.
You don't want to move the camera horizontally & vertically - more like PIVOT it around the focal point of the lens so you don't get any perspective offsets (i.e. what your two, or more, eyes do to get binocular/multiocular vision).
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We were told, back then, to believe what numbers they said. Now we're told to believe these new numbers because they "know better" in these enlightened times.
WHY didn't they know better back then to see that x-weight + x-diet + x-lifestyle killed x-people with >130/80 BP?
It's all statistics, and simply counting heads never changes.
2KW roof-mounted solar arrays? Pretty big roofs, or impossibly-efficient arrays...
>> The same NASA that said we've seen foam strikes on the shuttle for years without any problems, so don't worry about it.
An interesting, but not updated, graphic about shuttle tile strikes:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/15000_shuttle_hits.jpg
Has anyone seen anything more complete?
Back in '96: http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/herald_7oct96.html
"a guy" == Lord Godfrey McDonald (chief of clan McDonald, aka 'McDonald of McDonald')
At the general public level, people are often misled by their lack of common sense, their deficiency in understanding statistics and basic science, and therefore fall victim to the lies of the myriad charlatans that claim to have something that fixes everything.
...why so many are gonna vote for "salt-'n-pepper" in the coming election.
Yeah, good! If they call it "bugmenot" then facebook users won't be able to tell/warn OTHER facebook users about it.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/05/1741207
I saw some "up close and personal"-type thing on one of the news networks not long after she was elected governor. She seemed pretty sharp.
mod parent 'insightful'
I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned Muse Software's ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein - http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/wolf.htm.
I maintain a functioning Apple][+ and it's still my favorite graphics game on that machine (those of you who have played it: imagine it on a widescreen LCD!). :)
Oh, yeah, and I still play id's first version on my MacPro.
For you, a private citizen, following a police officer or other official while in performance of their duties is illegal.
It begs to be asked: why?
They'd never show the opening ceremonies live - those three 4$$h0l3$ reading the commentary can't possibly THINK fast enough to do it live, they had to voice-over the production to get parts of it right, you could see/hear the slight difference even on videotape.
Crowd noises were inconsistent, quality was crappy, editing was out of sequence - a blind, hydrocephalic, legless, autistic dead man with iMovie could've done a better job.
After all the criticism of previous olympic shows for exactly the same tape-delaying you'd think they'd AT LEAST run the opening/closing ceremonies on-time.
The earliest olympics I was old enough to appreciate was Tokyo in '64 and even though the satellite-relayed pictures were grainy and noisy I can remember thinking "gee, this is happening on the other side of the world RIGHT NOW..." and it was awesome to realize that even though it was an event a half-a-world away from me I could see it (essentially) immediately. The world stopped seeming unimaginably large right at that moment.
Too bad "Nothing But Crap" can't see their way clear to keep even THAT four hours of the games live (well, AND the closing ceremonies) - the rest of the games don't matter as much, but there's somethng special about seeing the opening/closing live from the other side of the planet.
(/soppy_romanticism)
"It's hard to wrap your mind around a place where nothing ever happens," Mr. Allen said.
Okay everybody - use this comment as a jumping-off point to rag on your job/office/co-workers...
It's a shame no individuals picked up on your movie reference (I'll leave it to the Enlightened to pick the right one - broad hint: the average of two consecutive prime numbers). :)
So that's it then: we HAVE to go discover Rare Moon elements, Rare Mars elements, Rare Ganymede elements, ad infinitum...
It's all a cunning plan by NASA to stay employed!
(do I really NEED to put a '/sarc' after this?)
Any idea what solar radiation pressure is at, say, 1 AU? I would imagine that it does an inverse-square drop-off as the distance increases, neglecting CME's and other transients.
The manga led me to the videos. OVA was the best but, be fair, I'm sure you found lots good places in the 26-eps too. :)
Yeah, true - the new tech does cost more - but doesn't necessarily have to be used for a cheap reader. Apple's first laptops were 'sunlit' LCD displays and though they were low-resolution (72 DPI, wasn't it?) they were decently readable under room lighting, for me anyway. Isn't OLPC also a sunlit screen?
:)
Is eyestrain from looking at your lit Palm screen due to size, contrast, or quality? I have to read a LOT of plaintext documentation on screens at work and one of the best things I have in the Mac OS is control-option-command-8: it inverts the screen colors so I can see white-on-black text which is 'way easier on my eyes and I can run for longer sessions without killing my eyes. I've seen e-book screens and, still, the black-on-white text is too washed-out for my tastes.
I didn't include HTML because (AFAIK) you can't embed images in it - it requires a separate folder to hold all the imagery, unlike PDF. Text-only HTML, though, okay. Adaptation: every file reader I've seen can wrap text to the width and can change sizes too...
Well yeah, e-ink screens aren't good for fast refresh rates - you want to read a static page then they're okay, you want movies go buy a player.
My point was why can't "they" just add text-capabilities to current DVD players as a reasonable bridge between the two uses: less horsepower required to do text so the batteries should last longer, the ability to still use it for movies, an invert option for text would be nice, full color for page illustrations, and a semi-reasonable size (_I_ don't need something small enough to sit-upon in my back pocket, i.e. iPhone or iPodTouch) for the use.
No no no - the girls were the GOOD GUYS, remember? That big trenchcoated mook with the glasses was one of the bad guys. And he dead now.
Awesome anime - did they ever do more?
...yiddles to alah...
(snicker)
Let's see... why did we want to go last time? Oh, because the Russians were going. Aha. The British have already been there - in 1899 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) ).
It's on Turner Classic movies right now.
...get everybody to walk in lockstep to synchronize the pumping action? With random footfalls you'd have to have a LOT of smallish pumping cells with a lot of valves to keep it all flowing properly.
TFA: "It works by using the pressure of feet on the floor to compress pads underneath, driving fluid through mini-turbines that then generate electricity, which is stored in a battery."
Why is it that I'd have to spend >$300 for an e-book reader when I can pick up a portable DVD player (that has MORE 'computing power' in it) in a blister package at Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, etc. for under $99?
I'd rather see something along the lines of a player that could handle TXT & RTF & PDF files and put them on the screen (as well as play movies). I could burn my stuff to a CD or DVD, drop it in the unit, and carry all the books I wanted. Give it a USB port for a thumb-ball or mouse for navigation, or keyboard for searching, and I'll bet people would snap 'em up in a minute.
My doctor has to send all his stuff to Medicare either by mail or fax or a phone modem direct to their number, using their app on his winbox (I've had to set it up for him every time he's gotten a new machine). THEY still don't connect directly to the internet...
You should be able to verify this with your doctor.
Hospitals and agencies may try to jazz the system, but Medicare doesn't have to suffer electronic break-ins.
You don't want to move the camera horizontally & vertically - more like PIVOT it around the focal point of the lens so you don't get any perspective offsets (i.e. what your two, or more, eyes do to get binocular/multiocular vision).
Yes but there is a common cause to these deaths, police intervention with taser. Calling it something else is a lie.
Except: electrocution.