Sure there are libraries that offer up e-books but these libraries are restricted in their membership to within their geographical area. Perhaps similar geographic restrictions on lending may provide a compromise in allowing books to be relended without allowing too much open dissemination. For example, to lend a book in real life requires you to physically hand off the book so perhaps they could allow you to only lend books by direct Kindle to Kindle wireless transfer.
Travelling to other countries, particularly areas of China and India, can really drive home how low the pollution is in most parts of America. There are times that I can't see more than 100 yards down the street and this is due to the air pollution from the cars and factories.
That's if you are lucky though. The problem is that Wikipedia cannot force due diligence. How many articles have you seen that have been tagged for years pleading for someone to add citations or to clean up the article? Here's one I found yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna . Good lengthy article on a very common topic with a lot of detailed information. But ZERO in-line citations.
Will his tortured mind give in to it's uncontrollable desires? Can he withstand the temptation to push the button, that even now, beckons him ever closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history, at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful shiny button. The jolly candy-like button. Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?
I'm actually rather impressed at the attitude of the other forum members. Most of them felt it was a bad choice and put pedestrians who might have been in the area at risk, suggesting the racer should go to a local track instead to wind up his wheels.
Rational thinking and behavior???
Good sir, this is the internet. We will have none of that thank you very much.
Americans? I would say that most Western nations like America, Canada, and Western Europe are doing pretty well when it comes to insulation compared to other countries. Hong Kong makes me cringe. Cement walls and large rows of single pane glass windows for residential and most shops have open storefronts with the air conditioning blasting. Given the high heat and humidity, air conditioning accounts for a large amount of energy expenses.
Simple my good man. In addition to the power generators, a complex system of air conditioners will be built along side to cool things down. These air conditioners of course cannot be run off of the power being generated as that would be a lose-lose situation. Instead, a new modern oil consuming power plant will be built in some nice open wetlands (I'm sure they have some that can be exploited) to power the new air conditioners. This will of course produce a bevy of new jobs most needed in the current economic climate. What a wonderful modern age we live in.
Well, you still could. It's just that shooting lasers at tungsten filaments moves from being used as a commercial process to being used as practice for the occasional Scottish secret agent strapped to a table.
It's been my understanding that Intel has always kept the most advanced fabs in the US (AMD too). I worked down the road from the fabs for the Pentium 4 (as horrible as that might be) when I was in Oregon. When you're talking about the cutting edge technology, it's done in the US but Intel makes A LOT of chips. From the desktop CPUs to lowly little microcontrollers that are designed to allow mechanics charge you $300 to replace. It's the older technologies that get pushed offshore.
There is a difference though when it comes to the learning curve between Windows and Linux. For me, the worst thing about Linux is that the gui is rather incomplete. There are far too many commands and settings that can only be run from the command prompt and not via the gui. The problem with this is that it makes it infinitely more difficult to learn how to do something new because you have no where to start when you do not know the command or the files you need to work with. It took me God knows how long just to figure out how to set my USB soundcard as the default sound card. Why? Because the audio programs interface through ALSA and I need to set ALSA to choose the default soundcards, but this can only be done by editing the settings file for ALSA. So I have search the internet to find this out, find examples of how the setup the file, etc. With Windows, I can just click around and search the menus. I go to Control Panel and voila, there are places to adjust the audio settings. Even if I do not know exactly where I need to go I at least can search the menus and such to find the appropriate programs. The only thing I can think of that I use the command prompt for is ipconig.
Windows at least is fairly consistent on the gui between versions. We have had the Start Menu since Win95 and other interfaces like the Control Panel, etc. I don't think there will ever any hope for the users that can't seem to get pass anything as simple as a change in colors. But hell, my grandmother was able to move from Windows 98 to Vista by virtue of the fact that the main elements of the gui were still consistent. She still had her Start Menu, Quick Launch, and Desktop icons.
You know, you would think if we were to standardize to a particular unit we would choose a unit more constant than the Library of Congress. Perhaps we need to agree on a historical Library of Congress for parity, say the Library of Congress of 1910.
If you're finding things to be significantly darker after 12 moonshines then you might want to think about putting down the hooch and visiting a doctor post haste.
So they were able to avoid following the rules in 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988? This is not the first time that conventions were held in late August (I'm not going to bother with the exact math) and this law has been on the books since 1986.
They really can't be called rivals though. Fermilab cannot replicate the experiments that LHC can perform and Fermilab probably cannot be upgraded to do so on a feasible budget. When Fermilab became the most powerful accelerator in the world (and it did find new quarks and what not because of it) it did not put CERN out of business and LHC is not going to do that to Fermilab (our own government can do that on their own).
Is there any source other than Barr's website? I mean it is a little biased in favor of his position. I would expect that at least one of the two major political parties would have worked out the legalities of this a long time ago. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure this has happened before.
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This sounds like a much better idea than that Cone of Tragedy that my local amusement park introduced.
Sure there are libraries that offer up e-books but these libraries are restricted in their membership to within their geographical area. Perhaps similar geographic restrictions on lending may provide a compromise in allowing books to be relended without allowing too much open dissemination. For example, to lend a book in real life requires you to physically hand off the book so perhaps they could allow you to only lend books by direct Kindle to Kindle wireless transfer.
Travelling to other countries, particularly areas of China and India, can really drive home how low the pollution is in most parts of America. There are times that I can't see more than 100 yards down the street and this is due to the air pollution from the cars and factories.
That's if you are lucky though. The problem is that Wikipedia cannot force due diligence. How many articles have you seen that have been tagged for years pleading for someone to add citations or to clean up the article? Here's one I found yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna . Good lengthy article on a very common topic with a lot of detailed information. But ZERO in-line citations.
Will his tortured mind give in to it's uncontrollable desires? Can he withstand the temptation to push the button, that even now, beckons him ever closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history, at the mere push of a single button? The beautiful shiny button. The jolly candy-like button. Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?
By Ben Vigoda, Co-Founder and CEO: http://phm.cba.mit.edu/theses/03.07.vigoda.pdf
Huh, I thought he was dead.
I'm actually rather impressed at the attitude of the other forum members. Most of them felt it was a bad choice and put pedestrians who might have been in the area at risk, suggesting the racer should go to a local track instead to wind up his wheels.
Rational thinking and behavior???
Good sir, this is the internet. We will have none of that thank you very much.
When it rains, it p.... OH GOD! It's melting through my skin!!!!!
Still, this promises to breathe new life into a gasping industry.
Americans? I would say that most Western nations like America, Canada, and Western Europe are doing pretty well when it comes to insulation compared to other countries. Hong Kong makes me cringe. Cement walls and large rows of single pane glass windows for residential and most shops have open storefronts with the air conditioning blasting. Given the high heat and humidity, air conditioning accounts for a large amount of energy expenses.
Damn, it's good to be a theoretician.
realmax
ans =
1.7977e+308
>> 4^511
ans =
4.4942e+307
So Matlab can keep powering up i correctly until you try to overflow. I don't think that is as egregious as Octave's problem.
Simple my good man. In addition to the power generators, a complex system of air conditioners will be built along side to cool things down. These air conditioners of course cannot be run off of the power being generated as that would be a lose-lose situation. Instead, a new modern oil consuming power plant will be built in some nice open wetlands (I'm sure they have some that can be exploited) to power the new air conditioners. This will of course produce a bevy of new jobs most needed in the current economic climate. What a wonderful modern age we live in.
Well, you still could. It's just that shooting lasers at tungsten filaments moves from being used as a commercial process to being used as practice for the occasional Scottish secret agent strapped to a table.
Don't forget the Pecan Flavored Candies!
It's been my understanding that Intel has always kept the most advanced fabs in the US (AMD too). I worked down the road from the fabs for the Pentium 4 (as horrible as that might be) when I was in Oregon. When you're talking about the cutting edge technology, it's done in the US but Intel makes A LOT of chips. From the desktop CPUs to lowly little microcontrollers that are designed to allow mechanics charge you $300 to replace. It's the older technologies that get pushed offshore.
There is a difference though when it comes to the learning curve between Windows and Linux. For me, the worst thing about Linux is that the gui is rather incomplete. There are far too many commands and settings that can only be run from the command prompt and not via the gui. The problem with this is that it makes it infinitely more difficult to learn how to do something new because you have no where to start when you do not know the command or the files you need to work with. It took me God knows how long just to figure out how to set my USB soundcard as the default sound card. Why? Because the audio programs interface through ALSA and I need to set ALSA to choose the default soundcards, but this can only be done by editing the settings file for ALSA. So I have search the internet to find this out, find examples of how the setup the file, etc. With Windows, I can just click around and search the menus. I go to Control Panel and voila, there are places to adjust the audio settings. Even if I do not know exactly where I need to go I at least can search the menus and such to find the appropriate programs. The only thing I can think of that I use the command prompt for is ipconig.
Windows at least is fairly consistent on the gui between versions. We have had the Start Menu since Win95 and other interfaces like the Control Panel, etc. I don't think there will ever any hope for the users that can't seem to get pass anything as simple as a change in colors. But hell, my grandmother was able to move from Windows 98 to Vista by virtue of the fact that the main elements of the gui were still consistent. She still had her Start Menu, Quick Launch, and Desktop icons.
You know, you would think if we were to standardize to a particular unit we would choose a unit more constant than the Library of Congress. Perhaps we need to agree on a historical Library of Congress for parity, say the Library of Congress of 1910.
Are you guys due back at the Home for bingo night?
If you're finding things to be significantly darker after 12 moonshines then you might want to think about putting down the hooch and visiting a doctor post haste.
They did put out Duke Nukem Manhatten Project.
So they were able to avoid following the rules in 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988? This is not the first time that conventions were held in late August (I'm not going to bother with the exact math) and this law has been on the books since 1986.
They really can't be called rivals though. Fermilab cannot replicate the experiments that LHC can perform and Fermilab probably cannot be upgraded to do so on a feasible budget. When Fermilab became the most powerful accelerator in the world (and it did find new quarks and what not because of it) it did not put CERN out of business and LHC is not going to do that to Fermilab (our own government can do that on their own).
Is there any source other than Barr's website? I mean it is a little biased in favor of his position. I would expect that at least one of the two major political parties would have worked out the legalities of this a long time ago. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure this has happened before.
I agree. I can't believe anybody would violate that poor dog's privacy!
Well, anyone except that asshole Bob Barker. Spay or neuter your pet indeed. Who the hell does he think he is?