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Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.
People who are serious about cooking know about the volumetric units used in cooking and the relationships between them. (teaspoons/3 = tablespoons)/16 = cups.
But your American friends who don't know how many ounces are in a pound? I hope you're kidding. That's basic stuff, taught in elementary (primary) school.
Given that one wouldn't care about spectrum purity, the required budget becomes minimal, with a trivial hardware component resulting in components easily obtainable with an anonymous visit to a swap meet, if one were to visit the right swap meet. After that, it's a simple matter of programming.
I've found that a lot of people are so defined by their job that they have no idea what happens above or below them. The "I deal with packet filters" person can't explain basic networking, nor do they have any idea what the overall configuration of the (enterprise) network is like, to cite an example.
From what I remember of my first exposure to Aldi about a decade ago, they were cash-only and had a horrid fruits & vegetables selection. Some of their stores in some parts of the country still have the fresh fruit & veg problem. (They have a distribution center two towns over from where we live.)
You can google up various "best beers at Aldi" list and find differing opinions. It's cheap enough that if you're willing to try something and abandon it at a party if it's not to your taste, you can probably find something that you like. They don't sell a porter or a stout, but their "Holland" is a decent enough summer Bier. (I'm surprised that they don't have a Weissbier, though.)
From what I've seen on YT, cart rental is a Euro in Europe.
If not, I whack the Spam button.
(#2 would be bad employees/decisions foisted on you by those handing you money)
Plus, you don't have that all-important "Cloud" buzzword for them to throw around!
Or "Froth" as in "frothing at the mouth" (from insanity and/or rabies)? Given the silliness, this is equally applicable.
From having worked on a trading system in the late 80s, I know that investors (and traders) at the retail level work at a gut level and would see market moves very shortly after news items would tick across on the Reuters feed. I would argue that this article is intended to be like spraying valium into the zeitgeist for the inevitable collapse. If they can grab mindshare with this "foam" concept, they may very well be able to isolate failed IPOs to companies (without real profit) in limited segments.
* History is-a made at night. * Character is what you are in the dark. * Laugh while you can, monkey-boy! * Home... home is where you wear your hat.
I'm sure it would be as illuminating as her other analyses.
Also, skip the UI sugar for the main purpose - TRACKING - of your app. If I want a map, I'd click over to the mapping application to see where I am. It should start quickly and start recording quickly, possibly notifying me that while it can trivially determine my location from the wealth of Wi-Fi signals permeating the campus, it's going to throw up a modal d-box and demand a click from me b/c the GPS doesn't get an immediate fix when they turn it on until you've made three taps into the program.
~~ They've since had ignition: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_792110c0-2c5b-11... ~~
[I'm positive that the ICF's predecessors also achieved ~~ignition~~ fusion on smaller scales.]
The real trick is that [0] you need to get out more than you put in (exceed break-even) [1] you need to be able to harness the energy produced by the ignition and [2] be able to do it over and over again, producing reliable power.
Surely you've missed finding out about JJ's…or you live on the opposite side of the bay from them.
Long, long ago, in a valley far, far away, people would drive from Berkeley to Sunnyvale (or the opposite trip) to meet their friends for dinner. (Midweek, even!) Traffic wasn't nearly as bad then.
To the presenter - I thought I'd seen/heard this talk before, and I was right - she gave this talk as a TedX talk about a year ago and has since published a successful book about her search.
I'm glad that she figured out what was actually important to her. I hope that she has chosen her parameters wisely and will have a lasting marriage because of it. (I also sincerely hope that her husband had gone through a similar exercise.) However, being the cynic that I am, I suspect that what she thinks is important now will not be what she finds important three to fifteen years down the road. One of the things I noticed that she was looking for was a mid-30s (I assume) male who had never been married. She probably failed to take into account that there's probably a reason for that.
In Silicon Valley, the guy they usually want is a hunky fireman of an appropriate age who possesses the build of a 20-something who works out constantly and has a portfolio that would give an East German Olympic weight-lifter a hernia. The woman who wants this man is in her fifties, but claims that she's in her forties, is using photos from her thirties, and really should be on multiple forms of psychiatric medication. She hates her job, wishes to get married as soon as possible, and rejects all the men she meets.