Ummm...No. Not even close. The weakened ones will get killed off by disease and bugs and will leave only the strong ones. The only way this could work would be to somehow give the weak plant DNA some kind of advantage in the fertilization process and it would have to be 100%. This is how natural selection works and will proceed just like drug resistant diseases. We use anti-biotics against diseases and kill the ones that are susceptible, leaving only the ones that aren't to reproduce. The "fit to survive" survive and the remaining strain is that much stronger.
The higher the compression ratio in a combustion engine, the more efficient it is.
They are also much less reliable. I fly piston engine powered aircraft, the kind that *require* 100 octane fueld, and can assure you that the high compression engines are much worse for the wear at overhaul than the lower compression ones. Sure, you can just make the parts thicker to withstand the abuse but the cost to manufacture goes up as does vehicle weight. There is still no such thing as a free lunch, even if it is biofuel powered.
My 9 month old will work himself into a huge fit when he first wakes up if we don't get him. With the monitor we can hear his first few noises and get him before he is fully awake so the monitor is far more useful than "wait to hear him scream." Interestingly, I run a 54 Mbps G WLAN at my house and can watch youtube video over it when the monitor is on. I guess they must be in completely different parts of the spectrum.
I'd like to see some of the early rounds of this. As stated, when the computer believes it knows an answer it will be lightning quick on the button. In early goings, however, it is going to get a staggering number of questions wrong. If th researchers set the bar too high to answer the computer will never ring in so I would expect to see some incredible negative scores from the early versions of the program.
You forget that fault tolerance is not of utmost importance to Google. I read an article somewhere that said, in essence, that since these are search results, and not financial transactions it is okay if some parts of the overall network don't know everything that every network knows. Having access to 95% (or 99%) of the data is still acceptable in the search world.
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Sometimes you feel like what Linux lacks the most is simply "common sense"
Linux, IMHO, lacks an 80/20 filter. Windows has a pretty good one in parts; menus hide things that haven't been used recently. Linux types are so big on making sure that it can do *everything* they lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the time a single option would have sufficed. Allowing an extended set of choices is fine but there has to be some way to hide it so that life can be simple. Sometimes people actually want to get something accomplished and not just play with their OS.
I think you need to broaden your vision a little and see how close hulu is to what you want. First of all, the only real limit on "watch when you want to watch" is the actual production of the content. The only show my wife and I watch as a real time broadcast is "Lost"; everything else is Netflix, Hulu or DVD. The rest of this content we've watched at our convenience. With a site like hulu when content is in the can it can be loaded to the site and people can watch it whenever. Concerning your desire for a lack of channels, we watch shows through these various sources that have gone off the air and still have no idea what channel they were on when they aired originally. I realize that today hulu is controlled by NBC but if youtube pre Google could handle the bandwidth of its videos there is no reason hulu couldn't handle content dumped out there from any provider.
It isn't there yet but I think your truly "on demand" TV is a lot closer than you think.
I just started a new job for less than my previous job. My new job is 5 minutes from home,l ess if I catch the lights right; my old job was 1:45 in rush hour traffic each way. Even with gas savings factored in I still don't net more but my life is immeasurably better for it.
I knew someone with a BS in Physics/MS in Electrical Engineering who went to work for the CIA in their communications unit. She can't tell anyone what she did but from her excitement talking about what she could say it sounded like one of the cooler jobs a person could have if one is into those kind of toys.
I think that what has probably happened is that MS knows their share has been declining but hasn't had to lay anybody off because the decline simply allowed them to not replace people who left through natural attrition. The economic slowdown made people more likely to hang on the security of their job and forced them to let go the people who would normally have left on their own.
Thanks. I had actually wondered that myself before I posted so I created a directory starting with "Documents" to see if the ~2 convention for the second directory held since I had never actually had to use that before. I only posted after confirming expected behavior.
finally making it unnecessary to deal with those damn spaces in every single file path in the home directory
There has always been a way around it. For backwards compatibility (8.3 naming) of "long" filenames you could always use the first 6 letters followed by ~1 so 'cd "Documents and Settings"' takes the user to the same location as 'cd Docume~1'.
You spelled entirely too many words correctly and your sentences in general display correct subject/verb/number/tense agreement to have been written by any scammer.
The bear, on the other hand, may spend hours if it smells something good.
Another area in which there is significant overlap between bears and humans. We just need to get people to eat stuff that smells bad and we can solve the bear problem.
It sound like "boot" is a dubious description. If it is in fact still starting the network and other services it hasn't booted. I know that on both my home and work computers the first thing I want to run when I boot is email. If I can't run my email client of choice the system hasn't booted, no matter what I am seeing on my screen.
I've never tried to go really high in the 182. I guess it would probably be okay. I just like staying away from ground. Fortunately the ground doesn't get all that high in NE Georgia where I live.
I'm not so sure you'd have time to use a parachute. Unfortunately for airplanes, the air gets thin as altitude increases regardless of the level of the ground underneath. Just because the plane is at 10K' doesn't mean it is high enough above ground level to successfully jump to a mountain that is 9K' tall. I am going to solve this problem the way I always have: don't fly planes that can't go high. I wouldn't in a million years think of flying a 172 or even my Dad's 182 in mountains that high. If I have to go that high I'll borrow my friend's Velocity.
Why do people think that small airplane pilots need parachutes?
Because they lack information. I fly a Cessna 172 and even if the engine goes out its ~9:1 glide ratio means I have a decent amount of time to find a place to put down. I live near a number of blue shield interstate highways so in a worst case scenario I can put down on one of those or in the median between them. I haven't flown in (or around) mountains yet but I can't envision many situations in which it would be preferable to get out of my plane.
That said, if I had to get out it wouldn't be hard. If you can get the door open, once you take your seatbelt off you could just lean out and fall headfirst. For people with Archers and the other low wings getting out would not be much fun at all.
What really needs to happen is for there to be an informative display of what is happening when the system is loading, something that is one of my favorite things about linux. Most people wouldn't gripe about how long it takes for their system to load if they knew what it was that was loading. Sadly, I have stopped being amazed by the people who complain that "Windows loads slow" and then go in and find that they are incapable of saying "No" to any application that wants to install itself on their system. If you want the iTunes Helper and 6 different IE toolbars to load then you accept that requires time. If your fancy all-in-one fax/printer/scanner/roaster has some special monitor that has to load, suck it up and accept a slow load but at least allow the user of any OS to see what exactly it is that is getting put in memory when their system starts up.
There was a great "How is it done" kind of program on the Discovery Channel about this. Not only is it kept in casks almost the entire time, they rotate the casks around the aging warehouse so that each cask gets its turn in the higher temperature upper levels of the racks and time in the cooler lower levels. It makes me appreciate my Maker's Mark that much more.
The good news about a rise in CO levels is that it could have a limiting effect on the production of CO2 producers. We may kill off all the oxygen breathing life, but hey, we saved the planet so it's okay, right?
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Either that or we'd have a country full of very fit former couch potatoes.
Ummm...No. Not even close. The weakened ones will get killed off by disease and bugs and will leave only the strong ones. The only way this could work would be to somehow give the weak plant DNA some kind of advantage in the fertilization process and it would have to be 100%. This is how natural selection works and will proceed just like drug resistant diseases. We use anti-biotics against diseases and kill the ones that are susceptible, leaving only the ones that aren't to reproduce. The "fit to survive" survive and the remaining strain is that much stronger.
The higher the compression ratio in a combustion engine, the more efficient it is.
They are also much less reliable. I fly piston engine powered aircraft, the kind that *require* 100 octane fueld, and can assure you that the high compression engines are much worse for the wear at overhaul than the lower compression ones. Sure, you can just make the parts thicker to withstand the abuse but the cost to manufacture goes up as does vehicle weight. There is still no such thing as a free lunch, even if it is biofuel powered.
My 9 month old will work himself into a huge fit when he first wakes up if we don't get him. With the monitor we can hear his first few noises and get him before he is fully awake so the monitor is far more useful than "wait to hear him scream." Interestingly, I run a 54 Mbps G WLAN at my house and can watch youtube video over it when the monitor is on. I guess they must be in completely different parts of the spectrum.
So you're saying it might get here in my son's lifetime instead of my grandchild's? (My oldest child is 7.)
I'd like to see some of the early rounds of this. As stated, when the computer believes it knows an answer it will be lightning quick on the button. In early goings, however, it is going to get a staggering number of questions wrong. If th researchers set the bar too high to answer the computer will never ring in so I would expect to see some incredible negative scores from the early versions of the program.
Good luck with this option on an oil tanker. The good news is that the pirates won't get the ship. The bad news is that nobody else will either.
I don't think 5.25 floppies are big enough for lossless images. They're going to have to use Zip drives for these.
You forget that fault tolerance is not of utmost importance to Google. I read an article somewhere that said, in essence, that since these are search results, and not financial transactions it is okay if some parts of the overall network don't know everything that every network knows. Having access to 95% (or 99%) of the data is still acceptable in the search world.
Sometimes you feel like what Linux lacks the most is simply "common sense"
Linux, IMHO, lacks an 80/20 filter. Windows has a pretty good one in parts; menus hide things that haven't been used recently. Linux types are so big on making sure that it can do *everything* they lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the time a single option would have sufficed. Allowing an extended set of choices is fine but there has to be some way to hide it so that life can be simple. Sometimes people actually want to get something accomplished and not just play with their OS.
I think you need to broaden your vision a little and see how close hulu is to what you want. First of all, the only real limit on "watch when you want to watch" is the actual production of the content. The only show my wife and I watch as a real time broadcast is "Lost"; everything else is Netflix, Hulu or DVD. The rest of this content we've watched at our convenience. With a site like hulu when content is in the can it can be loaded to the site and people can watch it whenever. Concerning your desire for a lack of channels, we watch shows through these various sources that have gone off the air and still have no idea what channel they were on when they aired originally. I realize that today hulu is controlled by NBC but if youtube pre Google could handle the bandwidth of its videos there is no reason hulu couldn't handle content dumped out there from any provider.
It isn't there yet but I think your truly "on demand" TV is a lot closer than you think.
I just started a new job for less than my previous job. My new job is 5 minutes from home,l ess if I catch the lights right; my old job was 1:45 in rush hour traffic each way. Even with gas savings factored in I still don't net more but my life is immeasurably better for it.
I knew someone with a BS in Physics/MS in Electrical Engineering who went to work for the CIA in their communications unit. She can't tell anyone what she did but from her excitement talking about what she could say it sounded like one of the cooler jobs a person could have if one is into those kind of toys.
I think that what has probably happened is that MS knows their share has been declining but hasn't had to lay anybody off because the decline simply allowed them to not replace people who left through natural attrition. The economic slowdown made people more likely to hang on the security of their job and forced them to let go the people who would normally have left on their own.
Thanks. I had actually wondered that myself before I posted so I created a directory starting with "Documents" to see if the ~2 convention for the second directory held since I had never actually had to use that before. I only posted after confirming expected behavior.
finally making it unnecessary to deal with those damn spaces in every single file path in the home directory
There has always been a way around it. For backwards compatibility (8.3 naming) of "long" filenames you could always use the first 6 letters followed by ~1 so 'cd "Documents and Settings"' takes the user to the same location as 'cd Docume~1'.
You spelled entirely too many words correctly and your sentences in general display correct subject/verb/number/tense agreement to have been written by any scammer.
The bear, on the other hand, may spend hours if it smells something good.
Another area in which there is significant overlap between bears and humans. We just need to get people to eat stuff that smells bad and we can solve the bear problem.
It sound like "boot" is a dubious description. If it is in fact still starting the network and other services it hasn't booted. I know that on both my home and work computers the first thing I want to run when I boot is email. If I can't run my email client of choice the system hasn't booted, no matter what I am seeing on my screen.
I've never tried to go really high in the 182. I guess it would probably be okay. I just like staying away from ground. Fortunately the ground doesn't get all that high in NE Georgia where I live.
I'm not so sure you'd have time to use a parachute. Unfortunately for airplanes, the air gets thin as altitude increases regardless of the level of the ground underneath. Just because the plane is at 10K' doesn't mean it is high enough above ground level to successfully jump to a mountain that is 9K' tall. I am going to solve this problem the way I always have: don't fly planes that can't go high. I wouldn't in a million years think of flying a 172 or even my Dad's 182 in mountains that high. If I have to go that high I'll borrow my friend's Velocity.
Why do people think that small airplane pilots need parachutes?
Because they lack information. I fly a Cessna 172 and even if the engine goes out its ~9:1 glide ratio means I have a decent amount of time to find a place to put down. I live near a number of blue shield interstate highways so in a worst case scenario I can put down on one of those or in the median between them. I haven't flown in (or around) mountains yet but I can't envision many situations in which it would be preferable to get out of my plane.
That said, if I had to get out it wouldn't be hard. If you can get the door open, once you take your seatbelt off you could just lean out and fall headfirst. For people with Archers and the other low wings getting out would not be much fun at all.
What really needs to happen is for there to be an informative display of what is happening when the system is loading, something that is one of my favorite things about linux. Most people wouldn't gripe about how long it takes for their system to load if they knew what it was that was loading. Sadly, I have stopped being amazed by the people who complain that "Windows loads slow" and then go in and find that they are incapable of saying "No" to any application that wants to install itself on their system. If you want the iTunes Helper and 6 different IE toolbars to load then you accept that requires time. If your fancy all-in-one fax/printer/scanner/roaster has some special monitor that has to load, suck it up and accept a slow load but at least allow the user of any OS to see what exactly it is that is getting put in memory when their system starts up.
There was a great "How is it done" kind of program on the Discovery Channel about this. Not only is it kept in casks almost the entire time, they rotate the casks around the aging warehouse so that each cask gets its turn in the higher temperature upper levels of the racks and time in the cooler lower levels. It makes me appreciate my Maker's Mark that much more.
The good news about a rise in CO levels is that it could have a limiting effect on the production of CO2 producers. We may kill off all the oxygen breathing life, but hey, we saved the planet so it's okay, right?