It's also a drop in the ocean when you consider the amount of other plastic item packagings and liters of fuel the average consumer uses per year. It's an imaginary problem.
How many litres of extra fuel is it going to cost to cart around those empty bags all over the place on the off chance that one of your trips might be to a grocery store?
Only problem with keeping them in a car is they tend to be alive.
Actually, that is not a problem. Not only does it affect only the weak and sickly (the ones who aren't going to make it anyway), but it only threatens the tiny percentage of the population who remember to reuse their reusable bags in the first place.
Tokens are not easy to use. Not for the passenger, and not for the transit company. Passengers are forced to dig through pockets, or change purses to try to find a token. You have to go to special stores to get them, If you drop them they get lost easily, especially in the snow or mud. Transit companies have to have an entire network of collection boxes, personnel, and special vehicles to transport the tokens to a central facility, where the are counted, cleaned, filtered for damaged tokens and counterfeits, and packaged for distribution to the vendors.
Tokens are easy to understand. Tokens are durable, and they beat the heck out of cash fares... but it's far easier to swipe a card or bump and RFID reader.
My problem with this 'debate' is the hand-wringing by unaffected parties, and the inevitable illogical leap that next we'll be killing the old and infirm because they're inconvenient.
But isn't that exactly what Adams was doing? His father certainly wasn't threatening anyone, or hurting anyone. Nor was he a heinous criminal, to the best of my knowledge. His father was old, infirm, and inconvenient, and because of that, he had to die.
Oh, but he was in pain and suffering, some might say. Well then sever his spinal cord or something. Death isn't the only way to deal with pain.
So 1885-1889 sees 26 hurricanes, or 5.2 on average. Then between 1944, and 2005 the average was 6. Now we're hitting 10 and 14 a year. And in your mind, this somehow shows that extreme weather is *not* becoming more prevalent?
... the hidden compartment law exempts vehicles being operated by law enforcement officers, so if state troopers can come up with an excuse to use the ride they just grabbed, they may be able to keep it for themselves.
Aha! The perfect use: use the car as a bait vehicle. That way, you can nab the person for drug trafficking as well as theft of the automobile.
Sadly, that option gives Google complete access to every phone converstion you have. Further, Google now has your voiceprint, so they can track you on any public phone network.
You mean because the 1 bits are lighter than the 0 bits? But you've got to remember about packing density. You can fit a lot more 1s than 0s because they are thinner. Vibrations in the chips will help the 1s settle to the bottom, despite being lighter.
...neutrinos are most obvious when they are coming upward having traveling through the Earth which would block other kinds of cosmic rays.
[Lightbulb]Riiiight![/Lightbulb] I was picturing the Earth blocking the neutrinos, so the directionality of IceCube would be skyward. I never thought of looking at it the other way, with the Earth filtering everything else out and the directionality being downward.
As this is the only halfway serious post, I'll ask my question here.
"Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source.
Since neutrinos can pretty much zip through the entire planet unimpeded, they could enter Ice Cube from any angle at any time. So, how do they know which part of the sky the detected neutrinos are coming from?
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Why go out and dig up fossils when you can just print up a dino-bone. Gap in the fossil record? No problem. Just print up the missing link using a 3d morphing tool and be famous.
Does anyone happen to know what the greatest known lower bound is? (i.e. the largest known difference of two successive primes?)
There is none.
Proof: Select an arbitrarily large number N. The numbers between (N! + 2) and (N! + N) are all composite ((N! +2) is divisible by 2, (N! + 3) is divisible by 3,..., and (N! + N) is divisible by N). Since you can find an arbitrarily large span of composite numbers, there is no upper bound on the gaps between primes.
QED.
Wrong set. You're dealing with ALL primes. The question is about the set of KNOWN primes (you know, the ones listed in the NSA's Big Book of Primes). Between the known primes, there is a greatest known lower bound.
(1) "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and"
(2) "under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Notice how the only thing subject to perjury is whether or not the complaining party is authorized to act. What is not subject to perjury is the statement that the information in the notification is accurate. In other words, as long as they are authorized to act on one claim, they can fish for all sorts of things. For example, Disney thinks you may have copied Cinderella, so they hire WeazelCorp to file complaints. Weazelcorp can file notifications against you for Star Trek (Paramount), Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs II (Sony), and The Hobbit (Time Warner). They can make a statement that the notification is accurate even if they know full well it is bogus, because there's no penalty for a false list.
I tried adding a poweroff default to GRUB, but it didn't work for some reason or another. I wound up simply disabling the automatic updates within Windows.
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Since when is the government a "beacon of intellectual honesty and moral superiority".
Do you actually think anyone on Slashdot would really think that the entire project cost $900?
I could see it as a per-machine cost.
It's also a drop in the ocean when you consider the amount of other plastic item packagings and liters of fuel the average consumer uses per year. It's an imaginary problem.
How many litres of extra fuel is it going to cost to cart around those empty bags all over the place on the off chance that one of your trips might be to a grocery store?
I've found a solution to having to wash the reusable bags. I just line them with some of the convenient plastic bags from the grocery store.
Only problem with keeping them in a car is they tend to be alive.
Actually, that is not a problem. Not only does it affect only the weak and sickly (the ones who aren't going to make it anyway), but it only threatens the tiny percentage of the population who remember to reuse their reusable bags in the first place.
Tokens are not easy to use. Not for the passenger, and not for the transit company. Passengers are forced to dig through pockets, or change purses to try to find a token. You have to go to special stores to get them, If you drop them they get lost easily, especially in the snow or mud. Transit companies have to have an entire network of collection boxes, personnel, and special vehicles to transport the tokens to a central facility, where the are counted, cleaned, filtered for damaged tokens and counterfeits, and packaged for distribution to the vendors.
Tokens are easy to understand. Tokens are durable, and they beat the heck out of cash fares... but it's far easier to swipe a card or bump and RFID reader.
My problem with this 'debate' is the hand-wringing by unaffected parties, and the inevitable illogical leap that next we'll be killing the old and infirm because they're inconvenient.
But isn't that exactly what Adams was doing? His father certainly wasn't threatening anyone, or hurting anyone. Nor was he a heinous criminal, to the best of my knowledge. His father was old, infirm, and inconvenient, and because of that, he had to die.
Oh, but he was in pain and suffering, some might say. Well then sever his spinal cord or something. Death isn't the only way to deal with pain.
So 1885-1889 sees 26 hurricanes, or 5.2 on average. Then between 1944, and 2005 the average was 6. Now we're hitting 10 and 14 a year. And in your mind, this somehow shows that extreme weather is *not* becoming more prevalent?
You only pay them to keep the car registered, and thus legal to drive.
... on public roads. I'm sure you could do all the driving you want on your own private property.
... the hidden compartment law exempts vehicles being operated by law enforcement officers, so if state troopers can come up with an excuse to use the ride they just grabbed, they may be able to keep it for themselves.
Aha! The perfect use: use the car as a bait vehicle. That way, you can nab the person for drug trafficking as well as theft of the automobile.
Sadly, that option gives Google complete access to every phone converstion you have. Further, Google now has your voiceprint, so they can track you on any public phone network.
Trepanning always gets a bad rap.
Bad rap? You're trying to imply that there's such a thing as good rap?
If you want to support the artist, go to their concerts.
What if they're dead? What if the band has split up? What if they produce good music, but suck as a person?
A bit more clearly (but yeah, dmitrygr said it all), when a neutrino hits an atom it leaves a trail of light with a nonzero length.
A trail of light? I was picturing just a flash of light, a single, pinpoint flash. That's why I was wondering how it could detect direction.
It has more to do with the size of the circuits today compared to yesteryear. Smaller circuits are more vulnerable.
But could it be simply gravity?
You mean because the 1 bits are lighter than the 0 bits? But you've got to remember about packing density. You can fit a lot more 1s than 0s because they are thinner. Vibrations in the chips will help the 1s settle to the bottom, despite being lighter.
Atmospheric pressure is not linear with altitude, so no, you wouldn't expect a linear rate of failures if this was due to the atmosphere.
...neutrinos are most obvious when they are coming upward having traveling through the Earth which would block other kinds of cosmic rays.
[Lightbulb]Riiiight![/Lightbulb] I was picturing the Earth blocking the neutrinos, so the directionality of IceCube would be skyward. I never thought of looking at it the other way, with the Earth filtering everything else out and the directionality being downward.
"Most of the 28 high-energy neutrinos so far detected originate from parts of the night sky that don’t include the Milky Way, making it quite likely that they are arriving from a distant source.
Since neutrinos can pretty much zip through the entire planet unimpeded, they could enter Ice Cube from any angle at any time. So, how do they know which part of the sky the detected neutrinos are coming from?
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Why go out and dig up fossils when you can just print up a dino-bone. Gap in the fossil record? No problem. Just print up the missing link using a 3d morphing tool and be famous.
Actually, although it isn't essential, I'd recommend getting a good scope if you can afford one. You can learn a lot by watching the signals.
Every conceivable adapter, gender-bender, splitter, and breakout box under the sun.
Just get one of these
Does anyone happen to know what the greatest known lower bound is? (i.e. the largest known difference of two successive primes?)
There is none.
Proof: Select an arbitrarily large number N. The numbers between (N! + 2) and (N! + N) are all composite ((N! +2) is divisible by 2, (N! + 3) is divisible by 3, ..., and (N! + N) is divisible by N). Since you can find an arbitrarily large span of composite numbers, there is no upper bound on the gaps between primes.
QED.
Wrong set. You're dealing with ALL primes. The question is about the set of KNOWN primes (you know, the ones listed in the NSA's Big Book of Primes). Between the known primes, there is a greatest known lower bound.
I'm not seeing the loophole here...
No? Look at that last phrase:
(1) "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and"
(2) "under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Notice how the only thing subject to perjury is whether or not the complaining party is authorized to act. What is not subject to perjury is the statement that the information in the notification is accurate. In other words, as long as they are authorized to act on one claim, they can fish for all sorts of things. For example, Disney thinks you may have copied Cinderella, so they hire WeazelCorp to file complaints. Weazelcorp can file notifications against you for Star Trek (Paramount), Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs II (Sony), and The Hobbit (Time Warner). They can make a statement that the notification is accurate even if they know full well it is bogus, because there's no penalty for a false list.
I tried adding a poweroff default to GRUB, but it didn't work for some reason or another. I wound up simply disabling the automatic updates within Windows.