Actually, yes it is. If anything, the potatos are likely to have fewer germs (though I'm not aware of such factors posing a problem when it comes to tubers). Food exposed to radiation isn't dangerous unless it actually contains radioactive materials.
It's much like the difference between touching something that's scalding hot, and something that once was. Ever been afraid of metal surfaces? They were all once molten hot.
If stores want a better hold of a customer's wallet, shouldn't they perhaps focus a little less on the actual putting of items in baskets, and suchlike, and a little more focus on the actual forking over of cash?
If they manage to somehow make that experience easier for customers, perhaps they will find themselves more inclined to fork cash over to their stores rather than their rival's.
Call it what you will, but I'm not one to consider a proclamation of belief in a personal god to be 'Insightful'.
For those unaqainted with the subject of newly-formed islands, the only previous recorded example was Surtsey, just off the south coast of Iceland, which appeared in a volcanic event in 1965 or so.
Surtsey has been a neat case-study in the colonization of land-life in an area previously devoid of it, but has unfortunately (yet wisely) been off-limits to non-scientists.
Not anymore than the death toll of WWII should be mentioned however that general timeperiod is discussed, no.
However, as most U.S.-ians (even the government itself) seem completely ignorant of the conflict's deathtoll, the numbers need to be brought into the daylight, so to speak. But I digress...
I can't help but agree with your sentiment. With that said, mentioning the death toll (and or amount of general destruction) would put the Internet access outage in context, and help to clarify the situation.
Yes, it does actually matter. While/. certainly is not a media outlet, dedicated to bringing news to the average (typically non-technically minded) masses, not making as much as a brief mention of the deaths incurred while reporting a disaster affecting technology is, at the very least, insensitive, and at worst callous.
This pretty much reveals our cultural bias, but I also initially understood the headline as describing rampant multiplayer matches crippling internet access. Now *that's* what I would call a heated deathmatch. Electrifying, even.
Given/.er's general tendencies towards being gamers, "earthquake" would have been a better word to describe the occurance.
I mean, without a picture of that centimeter-in-diameter protozoan, how the hell am I supposed to imagine how it looks like, much less the more important facets of such a discovery... such as how does it taste?
I have absolutely *NO* idea what is and isn't feasible regarding boot up times with current methods, but hybrid drives should improve this by a lot. With all of the required boot-up bits written to non-volatile memory with practically zero seek-times, computers with hybrid drives will hopefully boot up almost instantly. And from what I hear, some motherboard makers will soon be including flash memory on the mobos themselves for this very purpose.
Have you considered opening it up to see if you could repair it yourself? If what you're dealing with is an HDD failure, the most common cause of such failures in iPods is bad connectivity. It typically sounds and looks the same as a *real* HDD failure, with the HDD starting to spin up, then abrubtly stopping with a click. I opened a friend's "broken" 4th gen with a flat-head screwdriver and secured the cable in place. Hasn't had a problem since.
In some ways, I just prefer the format of dead-tree published content. I like browsing through the articles in a basically linear fashion, at least in magazines that happen to have a decent content-to-advertising/bullshit/inane-fanboyism ratio.
I recently read somewhere about NYT expecting to release a newsreader for their paper which presents the content in basically the same way as dead-tree paper. If that was available for the gaming mags I like to read, I wouldn't bother with the waste of dead-tree mags.
But then, The Escapist reads very much like a magazine. I do read that from time to time, even though I dislike how they assume everyone is reading it on an 800x600 resolution screen (dammit, I don't have all that real-estate just so it can be wasted on useless borders. Why don't they use scaleable higher-res pics so the content can be presented in people's preferred resolution? But I digress...).
You must be reading the US edition, which is indeed crap. In terms of geography, I live about halfway between the UK and US, yet the US edition costs a bit more. It also has half the width and much more advertising-per-content, as well as overmuch "eye-candy" (e.g., large explosions on the covers which don't serve to illustrate anything other than the reviewers' excitement).
The UK edition is great. Why anyone with a choice would ever read the US edition I will never understand.
"the last 25% will be the strongest & most deserving to survive, though they'll live in a miserable, forsaken world where every day is a struggle to survive!"
You make that sound like a bad idea.
I mean, who wouldn't want to be Mad Max?... Oh, ok, so even Mad Max himself wouldn't want to be Mad Max, but still... Post-Apocalyptica rules!
I see a couple problems with this "sunshade idea".
1. wouldn't they act like solar sails and eventually plummet towards the earth (or away from earth orbibt, or into an unuseful position, etc.)?
Maybe some sort of transparent material would be better; scattering rather than reflecting/absorbing light. Or would that also act as a solar sail?
2. Electromagnetic space launches aren't quite there yet. It's just how it is. Maybe later on.
Far as I know, this idea isn't even remotely possible until they get that particular tech to a usable/fundable level. No work, no funds. No funds, no go.
3. Expensive.
Even with a fantastically efficient launch method (as electromagnetic/laser launching seems to promise), 2% of all the light headed towards earth means a lot, a very large lot, of mass to put into orbit. I'm not sure I can impress this on everybody. It's a FANTASTICALLY large amount.
4. Alternatives.
There's stuff we can do RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT. It's very hard to identify just what one can do to reduce emissions, and many end up doing the exact opposite just in trying. But here's a few tips: Be efficient. Find ways around obsolescense. If at all possible, don't waste more than you need. This should all be terribly obvious by now, even though it isn't to many.
Seems to me like you're assuming that this is a bad thing. I've yet to see anything to indicate that this unit will have the function of censoring news items. Since that is (arguably) already being done, I see little reason to worry.
Maybe its actually just for correcting factual errors.
TFA doesn't say anything about what crime in particular he was jailed for, and his sentence may have been partly or completely due to his having 33 images of child pornography on his computer.
TFA is also very lacking in details, and doesn't say anything about the reason for the search warrant, and the aforementioned lack of explanation for his sentence.
I must add my view that for something like this, we really should leave it to the professionals before we are sure of what can and can't be done on commercial levels.
Its hard to get professionals to do that if they're all stuck doing things at governmental levels.
Besides, the comparison to Columbia is completely inapt. The shuttles' method of delivery has been compared to stacking TNT to the height of a street lamp pole just to launch a nut into space.
The Virgin method is much closer to traditional aviation, which is a mature science with a much larger industry which has a large amount of experience in doing what they do. Ok, so they're sticking a rocket motor on what pretty much amounts to an aircraft, but at least it doesn't need fuel tanks which weigh multiple amounts as much as the craft.
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It is sad that such a graceful animal be wasted on making coats or other fashion items.
It is obvious that its lithe physique has promising potential for exotic cuisine.
Slightly different? Well then... by definition, these will probably not even be DVDs at all...
There're already a large number of DRMd CDs sold in stores which don't fit the definition, as outlined by the standard, of CDs...
Actually, yes it is. If anything, the potatos are likely to have fewer germs (though I'm not aware of such factors posing a problem when it comes to tubers). Food exposed to radiation isn't dangerous unless it actually contains radioactive materials.
It's much like the difference between touching something that's scalding hot, and something that once was. Ever been afraid of metal surfaces? They were all once molten hot.
If stores want a better hold of a customer's wallet, shouldn't they perhaps focus a little less on the actual putting of items in baskets, and suchlike, and a little more focus on the actual forking over of cash?
If they manage to somehow make that experience easier for customers, perhaps they will find themselves more inclined to fork cash over to their stores rather than their rival's.
Call it what you will, but I'm not one to consider a proclamation of belief in a personal god to be 'Insightful'.
For those unaqainted with the subject of newly-formed islands, the only previous recorded example was Surtsey, just off the south coast of Iceland, which appeared in a volcanic event in 1965 or so.
Surtsey has been a neat case-study in the colonization of land-life in an area previously devoid of it, but has unfortunately (yet wisely) been off-limits to non-scientists.
Not anymore than the death toll of WWII should be mentioned however that general timeperiod is discussed, no. However, as most U.S.-ians (even the government itself) seem completely ignorant of the conflict's deathtoll, the numbers need to be brought into the daylight, so to speak. But I digress...
I can't help but agree with your sentiment. With that said, mentioning the death toll (and or amount of general destruction) would put the Internet access outage in context, and help to clarify the situation.
Yes, it does actually matter. While /. certainly is not a media outlet, dedicated to bringing news to the average (typically non-technically minded) masses, not making as much as a brief mention of the deaths incurred while reporting a disaster affecting technology is, at the very least, insensitive, and at worst callous.
This pretty much reveals our cultural bias, but I also initially understood the headline as describing rampant multiplayer matches crippling internet access. Now *that's* what I would call a heated deathmatch. Electrifying, even.
/.er's general tendencies towards being gamers, "earthquake" would have been a better word to describe the occurance.
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Because this particular person reminds everyone of who they love the most.
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Besides, who better to represent the collective achievements of the human race than... uh... the entire human race?
They should have thought this through. This is sort of like including the whole text of a book as the blurb on the back. Kinda sorta.
I always enjoy it when someone tells other people to pursue enjoyable activities.
Screw you too. I hope you enjoy it.
The article describes some pretty odd creatures.
I mean, without a picture of that centimeter-in-diameter protozoan, how the hell am I supposed to imagine how it looks like, much less the more important facets of such a discovery... such as how does it taste?
I have absolutely *NO* idea what is and isn't feasible regarding boot up times with current methods, but hybrid drives should improve this by a lot. With all of the required boot-up bits written to non-volatile memory with practically zero seek-times, computers with hybrid drives will hopefully boot up almost instantly. And from what I hear, some motherboard makers will soon be including flash memory on the mobos themselves for this very purpose.
Have you considered opening it up to see if you could repair it yourself? If what you're dealing with is an HDD failure, the most common cause of such failures in iPods is bad connectivity. It typically sounds and looks the same as a *real* HDD failure, with the HDD starting to spin up, then abrubtly stopping with a click. I opened a friend's "broken" 4th gen with a flat-head screwdriver and secured the cable in place. Hasn't had a problem since.
Don't be silly. That would be patently absurd. Sorry. I just had to say it.
Ugh. That man is a typical Berks.
Sorry. Had to be said.
In some ways, I just prefer the format of dead-tree published content. I like browsing through the articles in a basically linear fashion, at least in magazines that happen to have a decent content-to-advertising/bullshit/inane-fanboyism ratio.
I recently read somewhere about NYT expecting to release a newsreader for their paper which presents the content in basically the same way as dead-tree paper. If that was available for the gaming mags I like to read, I wouldn't bother with the waste of dead-tree mags.
But then, The Escapist reads very much like a magazine. I do read that from time to time, even though I dislike how they assume everyone is reading it on an 800x600 resolution screen (dammit, I don't have all that real-estate just so it can be wasted on useless borders. Why don't they use scaleable higher-res pics so the content can be presented in people's preferred resolution? But I digress...).
You must be reading the US edition, which is indeed crap. In terms of geography, I live about halfway between the UK and US, yet the US edition costs a bit more. It also has half the width and much more advertising-per-content, as well as overmuch "eye-candy" (e.g., large explosions on the covers which don't serve to illustrate anything other than the reviewers' excitement).
The UK edition is great. Why anyone with a choice would ever read the US edition I will never understand.
"the last 25% will be the strongest & most deserving to survive, though they'll live in a miserable, forsaken world where every day is a struggle to survive!" You make that sound like a bad idea. I mean, who wouldn't want to be Mad Max? ... Oh, ok, so even Mad Max himself wouldn't want to be Mad Max, but still... Post-Apocalyptica rules!
I see a couple problems with this "sunshade idea".
1. wouldn't they act like solar sails and eventually plummet towards the earth (or away from earth orbibt, or into an unuseful position, etc.)?
Maybe some sort of transparent material would be better; scattering rather than reflecting/absorbing light. Or would that also act as a solar sail?
2. Electromagnetic space launches aren't quite there yet. It's just how it is. Maybe later on.
Far as I know, this idea isn't even remotely possible until they get that particular tech to a usable/fundable level. No work, no funds. No funds, no go.
3. Expensive.
Even with a fantastically efficient launch method (as electromagnetic/laser launching seems to promise), 2% of all the light headed towards earth means a lot, a very large lot, of mass to put into orbit. I'm not sure I can impress this on everybody. It's a FANTASTICALLY large amount.
4. Alternatives.
There's stuff we can do RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT. It's very hard to identify just what one can do to reduce emissions, and many end up doing the exact opposite just in trying. But here's a few tips: Be efficient. Find ways around obsolescense. If at all possible, don't waste more than you need. This should all be terribly obvious by now, even though it isn't to many.
great way to guarantee customer satisfaction!
For both of them?
Seems to me like you're assuming that this is a bad thing. I've yet to see anything to indicate that this unit will have the function of censoring news items. Since that is (arguably) already being done, I see little reason to worry.
Maybe its actually just for correcting factual errors.
Or is that unjustified good faith on my part?
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TFA doesn't say anything about what crime in particular he was jailed for, and his sentence may have been partly or completely due to his having 33 images of child pornography on his computer.
TFA is also very lacking in details, and doesn't say anything about the reason for the search warrant, and the aforementioned lack of explanation for his sentence.
I must add my view that for something like this, we really should leave it to the professionals before we are sure of what can and can't be done on commercial levels.
Its hard to get professionals to do that if they're all stuck doing things at governmental levels.
Besides, the comparison to Columbia is completely inapt. The shuttles' method of delivery has been compared to stacking TNT to the height of a street lamp pole just to launch a nut into space.
The Virgin method is much closer to traditional aviation, which is a mature science with a much larger industry which has a large amount of experience in doing what they do. Ok, so they're sticking a rocket motor on what pretty much amounts to an aircraft, but at least it doesn't need fuel tanks which weigh multiple amounts as much as the craft.