It's like the game of telephone, meaning gets lost.
The original statement (Al Jazeera) was:
" a sixth of all Asian-Americans share just 30 surnames and 50 percent of minorities share common last names, versus 30 percent of whites"
I didn't realize that's how the ratchet shifter worked; I guess I never encountered one. You learn something new everyday! I will say that visually the one from the article looks just like what was in my grandmother's mid-80s car, which definitely wasn't a ratchet.
For any of you 'gearheads' this is just a reincarnation of the old school ratchet shifter. I had a 'cuda when I was in HS, a loooong time ago, that had this type and a pistol grip shifting knob. It was cool then, not really sure what I think about it now...
It may look the same but it's not. Apparently after selecting your gear, the shifter *returns to the center position*. If you're in park, the shifter is in the center, if you're in drive, the shifter is in the center position. Poor UI if you ask me.
No problem. Simply search for the Virgina Battle Flag and you still find it. Censoring is still a bad move, but at least they're doing it halfheartedly.
20 minutes in line, where I could see about half of the voting machines screens in use. I couldn't quite tell what people were voting, but if I had better eyesight I probably could have. Maryland is still using the hackable, no paper trail Diebold Accuvote touchscreen machines.
It's important to note that polycarbonate is *not* used to line food cans; that is normally done by epoxy resins. It is true that epoxies are often made using BPA, but equating the risk of BPA from polycarbonate to the risk from epoxies, is simply an incorrect knee-jerk reaction.
The Iliad is pretty sweet. The eInk people came by last year to give a seminar and brought a Sony eReader, an Illiad and a prototype color eInk display. The sony version was the least cool.
Hollywood probably would've said that Serenity lost money, regardless of its success. Forrest Gump lost money, at least on paper, and it grossed over $600million.
Last season NBC & ABC had most of their shows on their website. You didn't have the flexibility of a torrent but they were great for people who couldn't watch the broadcast. As I'm currently without cable, I plan on watching Heroes & Lost this way.
Other shows that I can't get this way... well maybe I'll find a torrent or crash on my friend's couch - at least until I move again & get cable.
Specifically you want the SLVR L2. It has no camera and good battery life. I got mine last fall directly from Cingular for free with the plan. I think it's discontinued now, but eBay should have a couple.
I probably underestimated the number of 9s. I didn't actually count them while my roommate read them off. I understand the limitations fairly well but the display/rounding error is more annoying then problematic.
For Reference I believe my roommate ordered his iMac the day after the Intel based ones were announced, so if there were any 1st generation bugs, it has them.
Yep, I read the wikipedia article (well parts of it). And it said that it was an accuracy problem due to floating-point operations. The handy heading titled "Accuracy problems" was particularly useful.
Actually it's an accuracy error since it's deviated from the true value.
Given that the example I gave occured 1 week ago, the correction must've came from an user-installed patch (which my roommate must not have done). This comes back to the parent of my original post that mentioned a reduced Total Cost of Ownership for Macs, a claim that appears dubious in my eyes.
Macs are fine... as long as you don't want to do any critical math.
The calculator on my roommate's iMac (Intel-based) thinks that 117/2=58.49999, whereas my Windows PC, my calculator, and basic math tells me that 117/2=58.5.
Driving habits make a huge difference. I went with a couple friends on a road trip to Atlanta (from NY with a stop in Delaware). For the three of us in a Honda Civic, mileage ran from 30-37mpg. The amusing part? The 30 was from the guy who always used cruise control and the 37 was from me who never used it. It was all interstate driving, with similar amounts of traffic.
It's not teachers/professors' job to tell the deranged from the stupid. That's the job of guidance counselors and psychologists. I think a referral to the school's counselor would've been more appropriate - especially considering that this all could've been a reaction to the VA Tech killings.
Actually it is illegal to mutilate or deface paper money, so long as it's "with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued"(BEP). Cutting up bills to make fancy artistic crap would fall under that definition. The Bureau of Printing and Engraving frowns upon putting celebrity portraits over the actual portraits, though it does mention that "a determination of the legality of any particular celebrity note is a matter within the authority of the Department of Justice." BEP again
Stuff like this happens since the punishment is "not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both". Hardly worthwhile prosectuting people when people are out there printing stacks of $100s.
That's what really matters when it comes to wind power. How strong of wind do you get? How often is it windy? Check out your location first to see if there is enough wind to begin with. I did a little research when my parents asked (and they have enough land that the neighbor problem wouldn't exist) and it turned out that for the most part it wasn't windy enough to make anything worthwhile.
No, it's a valid concern, and more than just a feeling. There's a nice article entitled The 1.7 Kilogram Microchip which basically breaks down the material and energy requirements for a 2g memory chip. That 2 gram chip requires 1600g of fossil fuels and 72g of chemicals in its production. It also shows that the energy required for its production is almost twice what the estimated power consumption over its lifetime is.
Sure, we're talking about a processor rather than a rather low power consumption memory chip, but I imagine the increased processor power demands (through usage) are offset by increased demands during productions. Reducing CO2 emissions are nice, but sometimes it's useful to look at a broader picture.
Article reference: Environmental Science & Tech., Vol 36 no. 24, pg 5504, 2002. (No direct link, subscription needed)
I have a feeling that the chip's production generates more pollutants than the electricity needed to power to it. How about greening up the fab plant? Then I'll be impressed.
Everyone who clicks on the eDonkey link gets this friendly message:
"You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material.
Your IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and has been logged."
Great, I only go to the site, they chastise me for 'stealing' music and then write down my IP address. How long until the RIAA sends me a letter regarding my visit to eDonkey.com and requests to view my harddrive to find 'stolen' files?
I bought a 4 pack at Home Depot last Spring. At the time, a single bulb was $4 while a four-pack was $8, go figure. They have done wonders at lowering my electric bill, especially since I replaced several 300W halogen lamps. However, these bulbs only work well if they last. Two of the four have burnt out already. Replacements are suppose to have been shipped but haven't been received yet.
I'm not quite a convert, perhaps I will be if no others burn out prematurely.
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It's like the game of telephone, meaning gets lost. The original statement (Al Jazeera) was: " a sixth of all Asian-Americans share just 30 surnames and 50 percent of minorities share common last names, versus 30 percent of whites"
I didn't realize that's how the ratchet shifter worked; I guess I never encountered one. You learn something new everyday! I will say that visually the one from the article looks just like what was in my grandmother's mid-80s car, which definitely wasn't a ratchet.
For any of you 'gearheads' this is just a reincarnation of the old school ratchet shifter. I had a 'cuda when I was in HS, a loooong time ago, that had this type and a pistol grip shifting knob. It was cool then, not really sure what I think about it now...
It may look the same but it's not. Apparently after selecting your gear, the shifter *returns to the center position*. If you're in park, the shifter is in the center, if you're in drive, the shifter is in the center position. Poor UI if you ask me.
No problem. Simply search for the Virgina Battle Flag and you still find it. Censoring is still a bad move, but at least they're doing it halfheartedly.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/
20 minutes in line, where I could see about half of the voting machines screens in use. I couldn't quite tell what people were voting, but if I had better eyesight I probably could have. Maryland is still using the hackable, no paper trail Diebold Accuvote touchscreen machines.
It's important to note that polycarbonate is *not* used to line food cans; that is normally done by epoxy resins. It is true that epoxies are often made using BPA, but equating the risk of BPA from polycarbonate to the risk from epoxies, is simply an incorrect knee-jerk reaction.
That's delicious irony.
The Iliad is pretty sweet. The eInk people came by last year to give a seminar and brought a Sony eReader, an Illiad and a prototype color eInk display. The sony version was the least cool.
Hollywood probably would've said that Serenity lost money, regardless of its success. Forrest Gump lost money, at least on paper, and it grossed over $600million.
Last season NBC & ABC had most of their shows on their website. You didn't have the flexibility of a torrent but they were great for people who couldn't watch the broadcast. As I'm currently without cable, I plan on watching Heroes & Lost this way. Other shows that I can't get this way... well maybe I'll find a torrent or crash on my friend's couch - at least until I move again & get cable.
Specifically you want the SLVR L2. It has no camera and good battery life. I got mine last fall directly from Cingular for free with the plan. I think it's discontinued now, but eBay should have a couple.
I probably underestimated the number of 9s. I didn't actually count them while my roommate read them off. I understand the limitations fairly well but the display/rounding error is more annoying then problematic.
Also, it is documented that iMacs can be bad at math.
For Reference I believe my roommate ordered his iMac the day after the Intel based ones were announced, so if there were any 1st generation bugs, it has them.
Yep, I read the wikipedia article (well parts of it). And it said that it was an accuracy problem due to floating-point operations. The handy heading titled "Accuracy problems" was particularly useful.
Given that the example I gave occured 1 week ago, the correction must've came from an user-installed patch (which my roommate must not have done). This comes back to the parent of my original post that mentioned a reduced Total Cost of Ownership for Macs, a claim that appears dubious in my eyes.
The calculator on my roommate's iMac (Intel-based) thinks that 117/2=58.49999, whereas my Windows PC, my calculator, and basic math tells me that 117/2=58.5.
Perhaps it can be combined with the liquid body armor for extra protection.
So intelligent drivers are important.
It's not teachers/professors' job to tell the deranged from the stupid. That's the job of guidance counselors and psychologists. I think a referral to the school's counselor would've been more appropriate - especially considering that this all could've been a reaction to the VA Tech killings.
Stuff like this happens since the punishment is "not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both". Hardly worthwhile prosectuting people when people are out there printing stacks of $100s.
That's what really matters when it comes to wind power. How strong of wind do you get? How often is it windy? Check out your location first to see if there is enough wind to begin with. I did a little research when my parents asked (and they have enough land that the neighbor problem wouldn't exist) and it turned out that for the most part it wasn't windy enough to make anything worthwhile.
Sure, we're talking about a processor rather than a rather low power consumption memory chip, but I imagine the increased processor power demands (through usage) are offset by increased demands during productions. Reducing CO2 emissions are nice, but sometimes it's useful to look at a broader picture.
Article reference: Environmental Science & Tech., Vol 36 no. 24, pg 5504, 2002. (No direct link, subscription needed)
I have a feeling that the chip's production generates more pollutants than the electricity needed to power to it. How about greening up the fab plant? Then I'll be impressed.
"You are not anonymous when you illegally download copyrighted material. Your IP address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and has been logged."
Great, I only go to the site, they chastise me for 'stealing' music and then write down my IP address. How long until the RIAA sends me a letter regarding my visit to eDonkey.com and requests to view my harddrive to find 'stolen' files?
I'm not quite a convert, perhaps I will be if no others burn out prematurely.