5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
In the early days of personal computers I took the time to learn how things worked. If you're having the problem described in this article then you can wipe your hard drive and re-install Windows. If you don't know how to do this, then maybe it's time you learned. If you're not willing to learn, then do the rest of the world a favor and throw your computer out the nearest window.
When I first learnt to drive, I took the time to learn how things worked. When my engine siezed, I removed it, stripped it down, rebuilt and refitted it. If you don't know how to do this, then maybe it's time you learned. If you are not willing to learn, then do the rest of the world a favour and roll your car off the nearest cliff.
Email and internet access have become necessities (some countries have even declared internet access to be a human right) you can't expect everyone to be have that level of knowledge. Personal computers need to be more appliance-like, and the user shouldn't be required to know what's inside or how it works to use it.
Apple appear to be making progress in this regard with the iphone OS, but they keep getting slammed for not being open, and restricting users. Unfortunately this is the trade-off.
N.B.I have several mac's and I like them, however, I also have several windows machines and a couple of machines running ubuntu, I like those too.
If we're talking about the iPhone/iPad market, then Apple does indeed have a "monopoly".
If we follow that line of reasoning then Nokia have a monopoly on n900's, Toyota have a monopoly on Priuses, and Google has a monopoly on Google.com
The iPhone & iPad are products that compete in markets (smartphones and tablets), Priuses compete in the hybrid car market, and google.com competes in the search market.
Look at the market, not the product. If you want flash, you are free to buy a smartphone or tablet that has flash, from several competing companies, and apple will not stop you.
Adobe HAVEN'T bent over backwards to make flash work on OS X, it's buggier than anything else on my machine, gobbles cpu cycles like a greedy child, and freezes my browser on a daily basis.
I would not want this experience on a phone or any other device.
Maybe if they showed that they were willing to create quality software for Apples main product (OS X), then Steve and others at apple would look more favourably at allowing flash to run.
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When you die, you belong to no one. While you're alive, you can't transfer property rights over your body (one living person can't own another living person) and when you're dead you're not alive to agree to the transfer.
While I am alive, I can choose to donate my body to a University or Medical Facility for research purposes. They can't take possession (pun not intended) of it until I am dead, but after that it becomes the university's property. (If you don't believe me, try stealing a cadaver.)
If I can donate my body to one organisation, I should be able to leave it to any organisation or person.
I seriously thought about this once, and realised that the supermarkets will NOT cooperate.
Ever notices how supermarkets are forever changing the location of your favourite product? They want you to walk through the whole store because that way you are likely to make additional/unplanned purchases. Having a shopping list sorted by store aisle would defeat their nefarious marketing plans.
I thought of using user-generated data to create the store maps, (i.e scan the barcode when you grab an item off the shelf) but then realised that GPS is generally not accurate enough when used inside the store.
Poor market management, lack of planning or agricultural investment and war cause famine, not biofuels. Zimbabwe is host to some of Africa's best ariable land and yet there are thousands who are starving. If the people hadn't let all the farms fall into disrepair after the revolution they would have so much food they could be exporting to other regions.
There is enough farmland available to grow enough food for all the world. Better prices for biofuel stock might drive up prices short term, but will lead to greater investment and supply long term.
The people did not let the farms fall into disrepair!
The "revolution" was in 1980, and up until around 2000, 70% of the countries land was owned by 4000 people in a country of 12-13 million. The "people" never had access to land. However, Zimbabwe was still able to feed it;s population and export a great deal of food. It was also the 3rd largest tobacco producer in the world.
The food shortages were caused by President Mugabe and the ruling party ZANU PF, who allowed a violent programme of "land redistribution". The claimed to be taking the farms away from the 4000 minority and giving land to the "people" however in reality they kept the land to themselves, and as they are politicians and not farmers, hunger ensued.
N.B. The 4000 people who owned 70% of the land happened to be white in a country where the majority of people are black. The uneven land distribution is/was caused by the policies implemented by the previous colonial regime.
- Connectivity - Yes! Wifi and 3G (admittedly expensive). Also.. you can connect a camera to it using USB or SDCARD (bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/)
Unfortunately the iPad Camera Connection Kit appears to be very similar to the iPod one, which means you will only be able to copy existing images and video from your camera to your iPod, buy you won't be able to use the camera 'live' so to speak, meaning you can't use the iPad for taking pictures, or any kind of video / webcam stuff.
Let's say for example, you could build a very stiff, rigid bar that was 1.5 lightyears long, and mounted it between two fixed points. Now if you push one end of the bar, the other end of the bar will physically move at the same time.
Obviously this is impractical, but let's say for a moment that it was possible. Wouldn't this be a method to transmit information faster than light?
If you give people the opportunity to earn a reasonable living by working in a factory, instead of having to rely on a small piece of dry infertile land, they will have more of a disposable income, which they will spend on their own health.
Having live in Africa for more than 2 decades, I can honestly tell you that most people know, understand and desire the benefits of small families, education and good healthcare. Unfortunately, many are caught in a poverty trap.
People have several children as an insurance policy. Not only are they ensuring that their genes are passed on, but they want/need the children as a workforce for their unproductive land, and also in the hope that there will be someone to look after them when they are old and frail. There is also the hope that one or more of the children will beat all odds, and make a success of themselves by becoming a doctor or teacher etc. as having one of those in the family will drastically improve the lives of the whole family. This has the effect of keeping the majority of people below the poverty line.
Additionally, while it might sound silly, if either husband and wife is away at work all day, AND they have some form of entertainment for the evenings, they will generally have fewer children, as having an actual disposable income makes one think about what to spend it on, and that often influences the decisions one makes about how many children to have.
as early as high school I was taught that if I was copying information verbatim, I had better have some sort of reference (MLA preferred).
This is perfectly true when you intend to quote the copied text in a paper or document you are writing that will be seen by other people. However, I often copy text from websites simply because I am interested, and want to keep a copy of an article locally, just in case something happens to the website.
If you spray an insect with water containing soap you will kill it too, are you going to stop taking baths? Salt has some rather nasty effects on slugs, so you better get rid of that. Insects are different that humans.
Completely immerse yourself in soapy water and see how long you last. Excess salt can kill you too.
I may be wrong, buy I've always been under the impression that one has to provide access to the source, but don't necessarily have to provide the source itself.
In the case of your PC store, you could include the source on the CD, thereby fulfilling all obligations (As the CD is not self-updating, the versions will stay the same, and the supplied source code will always be relevant)
Alternatively, couldn't you also provide a text file on the CD, with links to the source as provided by the maintainers of the software?
You are free to dislike a culture for whatever reason you choose, but don't apply it to individuals.
Yes, It IS bad for you to expect that I like certain type of music, enjoy chicken and a select a particular underwear size, based solely on the colour of my skin.
At least have the decency to meet me first, and then decide that you don't like me.
* Piracy is rampant, and Apple is not doing anything to resolve the issue. Google search results for our app was showing 4-5 hits on the first page of pirate sites providing cracked versions of our app. I've never seen piracy so prevalent and mainstream as it is for iPhone. Back in the Pocket PC days we had to search very thoroughly to find pirated versions of our apps - usually in the.ru TLDs. Now they are front and center.
I've noticed that if you search for something on Google, and include the word "torrent" in your search query, you will get many results, no matter what you search for.
The results are fake and do not actually have a torrent of what you searched for.
Have you actually checked that the results you are getting from Google, actually lead to pirate versions of your software?
Beer brewers WANT it to be at 5% so they monitor and control the brewing process to achieve that level of ethanol. No reason why one can't brew stronger beer, it just depends on the process. Additionally because beer is generally for human consumption, the brewers pay a lot of attention to taste, an also use "premium" ingredients. If brewing to produce ethanol, taste goes out the window, and one can use lower grade (read cheaper) ingredients.
I'm running Leopard at the moment, and when I look at the default apps on a Snow Leopard Drive, they are NOT 0 byte files. They display a grayed out generic application icon with a Circle & Diagonal over them, indicating that they are not usable by Leopard, but the file sizes report correctly both in the Finder, and in the Get Info Window.
The executables show up as 0 byte files in the Terminal, but display correct size information in the GUI.
London to Edinburgh is a 400mile journey, even at 100mph which is breaking the speed limit in most places, and unrealistic due to traffic, it will take you 4 hours. You will have to get home which is another 4 hours. You probably need to sleep for 8hours a day, so you've already used up 16hours just sleeping and commuting. That leaves just 8 hours in which you are supposed to get washed, dressed etc, eat, work, and spend time with your family.
I don't think that's reasonable.
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5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
Which is why Rudolph has a red nose!
In the early days of personal computers I took the time to learn how things worked. If you're having the problem described in this article then you can wipe your hard drive and re-install Windows. If you don't know how to do this, then maybe it's time you learned. If you're not willing to learn, then do the rest of the world a favor and throw your computer out the nearest window.
When I first learnt to drive, I took the time to learn how things worked. When my engine siezed, I removed it, stripped it down, rebuilt and refitted it. If you don't know how to do this, then maybe it's time you learned. If you are not willing to learn, then do the rest of the world a favour and roll your car off the nearest cliff.
Email and internet access have become necessities (some countries have even declared internet access to be a human right) you can't expect everyone to be have that level of knowledge. Personal computers need to be more appliance-like, and the user shouldn't be required to know what's inside or how it works to use it.
Apple appear to be making progress in this regard with the iphone OS, but they keep getting slammed for not being open, and restricting users. Unfortunately this is the trade-off.
N.B. I have several mac's and I like them, however, I also have several windows machines and a couple of machines running ubuntu, I like those too.
If we're talking about the iPhone/iPad market, then Apple does indeed have a "monopoly".
If we follow that line of reasoning then Nokia have a monopoly on n900's, Toyota have a monopoly on Priuses, and Google has a monopoly on Google.com
The iPhone & iPad are products that compete in markets (smartphones and tablets), Priuses compete in the hybrid car market, and google.com competes in the search market.
Look at the market, not the product. If you want flash, you are free to buy a smartphone or tablet that has flash, from several competing companies, and apple will not stop you.
Adobe HAVEN'T bent over backwards to make flash work on OS X, it's buggier than anything else on my machine, gobbles cpu cycles like a greedy child, and freezes my browser on a daily basis.
I would not want this experience on a phone or any other device.
Maybe if they showed that they were willing to create quality software for Apples main product (OS X), then Steve and others at apple would look more favourably at allowing flash to run.
Jonathan Ive, not Ivy.
When you die, you belong to no one. While you're alive, you can't transfer property rights over your body (one living person can't own another living person) and when you're dead you're not alive to agree to the transfer.
While I am alive, I can choose to donate my body to a University or Medical Facility for research purposes. They can't take possession (pun not intended) of it until I am dead, but after that it becomes the university's property. (If you don't believe me, try stealing a cadaver.)
If I can donate my body to one organisation, I should be able to leave it to any organisation or person.
Patent troll? So they...
1. Make a game.
2. Spend thousands to copyright it AND patent it.
3. Abandon and wait for someone to freeware a derivative.
4. Profit!
Just wanted to point that out. I think you are confused about the difference in patents and copyrights. Or just confused.
No, they could be a patent troll if they did the following:
1. Purchase the copyright of an abandoned game.
2. Wait for someone to freeware a derivative.
3. Hit the courts.
4. Profit!
I seriously thought about this once, and realised that the supermarkets will NOT cooperate.
Ever notices how supermarkets are forever changing the location of your favourite product? They want you to walk through the whole store because that way you are likely to make additional/unplanned purchases. Having a shopping list sorted by store aisle would defeat their nefarious marketing plans.
I thought of using user-generated data to create the store maps, (i.e scan the barcode when you grab an item off the shelf) but then realised that GPS is generally not accurate enough when used inside the store.
If any one has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Owning her name would be tantamount to owning her, period.
You had left out a comma!
Poor market management, lack of planning or agricultural investment and war cause famine, not biofuels. Zimbabwe is host to some of Africa's best ariable land and yet there are thousands who are starving. If the people hadn't let all the farms fall into disrepair after the revolution they would have so much food they could be exporting to other regions.
There is enough farmland available to grow enough food for all the world. Better prices for biofuel stock might drive up prices short term, but will lead to greater investment and supply long term.
The people did not let the farms fall into disrepair!
The "revolution" was in 1980, and up until around 2000, 70% of the countries land was owned by 4000 people in a country of 12-13 million. The "people" never had access to land. However, Zimbabwe was still able to feed it;s population and export a great deal of food. It was also the 3rd largest tobacco producer in the world.
The food shortages were caused by President Mugabe and the ruling party ZANU PF, who allowed a violent programme of "land redistribution". The claimed to be taking the farms away from the 4000 minority and giving land to the "people" however in reality they kept the land to themselves, and as they are politicians and not farmers, hunger ensued.
N.B. The 4000 people who owned 70% of the land happened to be white in a country where the majority of people are black. The uneven land distribution is/was caused by the policies implemented by the previous colonial regime.
- Connectivity - Yes! Wifi and 3G (admittedly expensive). Also.. you can connect a camera to it using USB or SDCARD (bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/)
Unfortunately the iPad Camera Connection Kit appears to be very similar to the iPod one, which means you will only be able to copy existing images and video from your camera to your iPod, buy you won't be able to use the camera 'live' so to speak, meaning you can't use the iPad for taking pictures, or any kind of video / webcam stuff.
Thank you for the explanation.
Genuinely asking here, not trying to troll.
Let's say for example, you could build a very stiff, rigid bar that was 1.5 lightyears long, and mounted it between two fixed points. Now if you push one end of the bar, the other end of the bar will physically move at the same time.
Obviously this is impractical, but let's say for a moment that it was possible. Wouldn't this be a method to transmit information faster than light?
If you give people the opportunity to earn a reasonable living by working in a factory, instead of having to rely on a small piece of dry infertile land, they will have more of a disposable income, which they will spend on their own health.
Having live in Africa for more than 2 decades, I can honestly tell you that most people know, understand and desire the benefits of small families, education and good healthcare. Unfortunately, many are caught in a poverty trap.
People have several children as an insurance policy. Not only are they ensuring that their genes are passed on, but they want/need the children as a workforce for their unproductive land, and also in the hope that there will be someone to look after them when they are old and frail. There is also the hope that one or more of the children will beat all odds, and make a success of themselves by becoming a doctor or teacher etc. as having one of those in the family will drastically improve the lives of the whole family. This has the effect of keeping the majority of people below the poverty line.
Additionally, while it might sound silly, if either husband and wife is away at work all day, AND they have some form of entertainment for the evenings, they will generally have fewer children, as having an actual disposable income makes one think about what to spend it on, and that often influences the decisions one makes about how many children to have.
as early as high school I was taught that if I was copying information verbatim, I had better have some sort of reference (MLA preferred).
This is perfectly true when you intend to quote the copied text in a paper or document you are writing that will be seen by other people. However, I often copy text from websites simply because I am interested, and want to keep a copy of an article locally, just in case something happens to the website.
If you spray an insect with water containing soap you will kill it too, are you going to stop taking baths? Salt has some rather nasty effects on slugs, so you better get rid of that. Insects are different that humans.
Completely immerse yourself in soapy water and see how long you last. Excess salt can kill you too.
I may be wrong, buy I've always been under the impression that one has to provide access to the source, but don't necessarily have to provide the source itself.
In the case of your PC store, you could include the source on the CD, thereby fulfilling all obligations (As the CD is not self-updating, the versions will stay the same, and the supplied source code will always be relevant)
Alternatively, couldn't you also provide a text file on the CD, with links to the source as provided by the maintainers of the software?
Parent is not necessarily offtopic.
Some, but not all TV recording software use the loudness of commercials as part of their commercial detection algorithms
Three score plus ten is NOT 80, a score is 20 which makes the total 70.
You are free to dislike a culture for whatever reason you choose, but don't apply it to individuals.
Yes, It IS bad for you to expect that I like certain type of music, enjoy chicken and a select a particular underwear size, based solely on the colour of my skin.
At least have the decency to meet me first, and then decide that you don't like me.
* Piracy is rampant, and Apple is not doing anything to resolve the issue. Google search results for our app was showing 4-5 hits on the first page of pirate sites providing cracked versions of our app. I've never seen piracy so prevalent and mainstream as it is for iPhone. Back in the Pocket PC days we had to search very thoroughly to find pirated versions of our apps - usually in the .ru TLDs. Now they are front and center.
I've noticed that if you search for something on Google, and include the word "torrent" in your search query, you will get many results, no matter what you search for.
The results are fake and do not actually have a torrent of what you searched for.
Have you actually checked that the results you are getting from Google, actually lead to pirate versions of your software?
Beer brewers WANT it to be at 5% so they monitor and control the brewing process to achieve that level of ethanol. No reason why one can't brew stronger beer, it just depends on the process. Additionally because beer is generally for human consumption, the brewers pay a lot of attention to taste, an also use "premium" ingredients. If brewing to produce ethanol, taste goes out the window, and one can use lower grade (read cheaper) ingredients.
There is a nursery rhyme I heard of once, it starts off Baa, Baa, Black Sheep...
I'm running Leopard at the moment, and when I look at the default apps on a Snow Leopard Drive, they are NOT 0 byte files. They display a grayed out generic application icon with a Circle & Diagonal over them, indicating that they are not usable by Leopard, but the file sizes report correctly both in the Finder, and in the Get Info Window.
The executables show up as 0 byte files in the Terminal, but display correct size information in the GUI.
Strange.
London to Edinburgh is a 400mile journey, even at 100mph which is breaking the speed limit in most places, and unrealistic due to traffic, it will take you 4 hours. You will have to get home which is another 4 hours. You probably need to sleep for 8hours a day, so you've already used up 16hours just sleeping and commuting. That leaves just 8 hours in which you are supposed to get washed, dressed etc, eat, work, and spend time with your family. I don't think that's reasonable.