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In Turkey we switched from Arabic Script to Latin, nearly 80 years ago. A more simpler switch than your proposed "from characters to letters" switch. We lost all written history overnight.
So? The same happens to the children of any immigrant. Lots of my mother's letters are in Turkish (gasp! With Latin script even!), but since I never learned the language, the history in those letters is essentially lost to me, unless I want to find someone to translate the rather ordinary stuff she wrote her family about.
Took me a while to remember what this reminded me of. For those still struggling to remember, it was Homer Simpson's description of the movie "Speed" (a.k.a. "The bus that couldn't slow down")
The alternate solution ceoyoyo is talking about requires a different kind of sensor. Imagine if you had two kinds of pixel sensors, one sensitive and the other insensitive. You'd alternate them on your sensor, perhaps in a checkerboard pattern, but basically pairing adjacent sensitive/insensitive pixels. Now, if your sensitive pixel registers too high a value, then it's probably blown out so use the value from the insensitive one (which is by definition not as bright). If the insensitive one registers too low a value, then it's probably too dark, so use the sensitive one (by definition not as dark).
So wouldn't that screw with high-contrast detail images, resulting in something like this?
He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps.
I thought the only way to connect geocoded photos to Google Maps was with Panoramio? I once tried it with Picasa and was frustrated that I had to re-upload them to Panoramio (or trans-load them from Picasa).
The dam is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual generating capacity, generating 94.7 TWh in 2008 and 91.6 TWh in 2009, while the annual generating capacity of the Three Gorges Dam was 80.8 TWh in 2008 and 79.4 TWh in 2009[1].
On the topic of intelligence, you probably meant 8/18/2010.
Thanks for playing the game -- you lose.
If only Muphry's law applied to ignorance instead of accidents.
Note the location, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ENGLAND. Only the US sorts dates in an entirely illogical format that can't be sorted chronologically forwards OR backwards. Me, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD.
Think of today's Hybrids as the equivalent of the first iPod. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." It's the 3rd and 4th gen of these vehicles that will blow everything else out off the road, in a matter of speaking.
If I correctly interpret the headers on the Wikipedia article, the Toyota Prius, first released in Japan 13 years ago, is in its the third or fourth generation.
...since the odds of getting roadkilled are so much lower than the odds of being killed by heart disease.
The stats are even better if you exclude the cyclists who are killed while doing something stupid (riding the wrong way, blowing red lights, riding at night without lights, riding in motorists' blind spots), and if you avoid these types of risky behaviours yourself.
there are 10 or more candidates and 90% or more of the squares opposite the names of candidates are not numbered as required or more than three numbers would need to be changed for a correct numeric sequencing to occur.
This means, for example that where there are twenty candidates, a ballot paper would be informal if it did not have on it either the numbers 1 to 18 (90% of 20) without repetitions or omissions, or numbers which, if up to three of them were changed, would be the numbers 1 to 18 without repetitions or omissions, or
...
While they've put a lot of words there to try to make a confusing process less confusing, they are doing it wrong.
If, as this page explains, a ballot is rejected when 90% or more of the squares are not numbered, then that means that the ballot would be accepted if 89% or fewer of the squares are left blank.
They mean to say "if fewer than 90% of the squares are numbered," or "if 10% or more of the squares are not numbered"
Awwww... someone's upset that they're going to have to adapt to the fact that some people might actually do good...
Good for whom? Or what?
Traffic engineering is about vehicles and passengers, not about what kind of car. Encouraging owners of gas-powered single-occupant-vehicles to switch to hybrids doesn't let the road carry more vehicles. Nor, since an SOV's ratio of vehicles to people moved is 1:1, you wouldn't increase the person-carrying capacity, either.
HOV lanes increase the number of people a highway can carry when the vehicular capacity has been reached.
As for the 'environmental' benefit of letting hybrid owners use HOV lanes, if you let electric or hybrid vehicles into the the HOV lanes, then you just free up more capacity in the general traffic lanes for non-hybrid cars that pollute more.
How much fuel does a hybrid save you at freeway speeds, anyway? Is it as good as the 50% or 66% reduction from carpooling? In fact, wouldn't it be better to put the hybrids in the stop-and-go traffic and let the gasoline-powered cars use the HOV lanes?
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On my most recent laptop (not counting the one that Dell said would ship this past Monday), I had an AMD sticker.
The decal part wore off, leaving a nice shiny mirror surface on the sticker. That eventually fell off, too. The Windows sticker has survived.
Maybe AMD is just embarrassed that their stickers self-destruct, so they're changing them to make it look like they want them to come off?
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Once the public realizes the 5-page essay needs to have more than just 140 characters per page, it'll strike terror into their hearts.
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Something I learned to do... long before I remember, probably since I was born.
Oh, long before that too, I'd expect.
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It's not Congress opening up these records, it's the Library of Congress.
And how many of these "libraries" does one find in a Congress, exactly?
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In Turkey we switched from Arabic Script to Latin, nearly 80 years ago. A more simpler switch than your proposed "from characters to letters" switch. We lost all written history overnight.
So? The same happens to the children of any immigrant. Lots of my mother's letters are in Turkish (gasp! With Latin script even!), but since I never learned the language, the history in those letters is essentially lost to me, unless I want to find someone to translate the rather ordinary stuff she wrote her family about.
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Took me a while to remember what this reminded me of. For those still struggling to remember, it was Homer Simpson's description of the movie "Speed" (a.k.a. "The bus that couldn't slow down")
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Or "Make your train look like a bus"?
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The alternate solution ceoyoyo is talking about requires a different kind of sensor. Imagine if you had two kinds of pixel sensors, one sensitive and the other insensitive. You'd alternate them on your sensor, perhaps in a checkerboard pattern, but basically pairing adjacent sensitive/insensitive pixels. Now, if your sensitive pixel registers too high a value, then it's probably blown out so use the value from the insensitive one (which is by definition not as bright). If the insensitive one registers too low a value, then it's probably too dark, so use the sensitive one (by definition not as dark).
So wouldn't that screw with high-contrast detail images, resulting in something like this?
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He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps.
I thought the only way to connect geocoded photos to Google Maps was with Panoramio? I once tried it with Picasa and was frustrated that I had to re-upload them to Panoramio (or trans-load them from Picasa).
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Actually, isn't the largest power station in the world the three gorges dam?
Evidently not.
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"I r in ur brainz", ffs.
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If only Muphry's law applied to ignorance instead of accidents.
Note the location, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ENGLAND. Only the US sorts dates in an entirely illogical format that can't be sorted chronologically forwards OR backwards. Me, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD.
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It's most likely the water chemistry. Most North American water systems are saturated with minerals and various biological agents.
Right, so parents who "protect" their kids from Wi-Fi let their kids drink tap water?
Next you'll be saying these parents let their kids walk, bike, or take anything other than mom's minivan to school.
If anything, the kids are "suffering" at school from exposure to other humans in anything other than a sterile suburban environment.
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I'm not sure that's a good business move; he'd be competing directly with the well-established Onion.
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I lost my birthday, and the bank refuses to issue me a new one because I can't answer their damn security questions.
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If I correctly interpret the headers on the Wikipedia article, the Toyota Prius, first released in Japan 13 years ago, is in its the third or fourth generation.
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...since the odds of getting roadkilled are so much lower than the odds of being killed by heart disease.
The stats are even better if you exclude the cyclists who are killed while doing something stupid (riding the wrong way, blowing red lights, riding at night without lights, riding in motorists' blind spots), and if you avoid these types of risky behaviours yourself.
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Engineering, sure. But could they explain all these complex concepts using chariot analogies?
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Unless it's a control group in a "double-blind" study...
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They need to do a study with masturbating rats to see if it has the same benefits as intercourse.
While they're at it, they can see if those rats grow more fur on their paws, too.
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From the AEC link:
A vote below the line is informal if:
While they've put a lot of words there to try to make a confusing process less confusing, they are doing it wrong.
If, as this page explains, a ballot is rejected when 90% or more of the squares are not numbered, then that means that the ballot would be accepted if 89% or fewer of the squares are left blank.
They mean to say "if fewer than 90% of the squares are numbered," or "if 10% or more of the squares are not numbered"
- RG>
Good for whom? Or what?
Traffic engineering is about vehicles and passengers, not about what kind of car. Encouraging owners of gas-powered single-occupant-vehicles to switch to hybrids doesn't let the road carry more vehicles. Nor, since an SOV's ratio of vehicles to people moved is 1:1, you wouldn't increase the person-carrying capacity, either.
HOV lanes increase the number of people a highway can carry when the vehicular capacity has been reached.
As for the 'environmental' benefit of letting hybrid owners use HOV lanes, if you let electric or hybrid vehicles into the the HOV lanes, then you just free up more capacity in the general traffic lanes for non-hybrid cars that pollute more.
How much fuel does a hybrid save you at freeway speeds, anyway? Is it as good as the 50% or 66% reduction from carpooling? In fact, wouldn't it be better to put the hybrids in the stop-and-go traffic and let the gasoline-powered cars use the HOV lanes?
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After my 3rd cycle was stolen in a year
Aha, this is the real answer that this study didn't evaluate. If you ride a bicycle [and don't own a car], your car will never be stolen!
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apart from English letters and punctuation?
But the sarcasm mark is punctuation!
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