Google Books search for "Elementary Linear Algebra" -Shields returns many results.

Reminds me of the last two panels of this XKCD. Our rights are only being violated half as much. Yay, I guess? Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative, and yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.

Given that you're talking about cars in a conversation about ships, you may want to rethink tossing around words like gibberish. Crawl back under your bridge, troll.

Mashing Ctrl-C like a maniac during the boot cycle would do it.

I also got a TI-99/4A as my first machine. Fun story about "on the path:" Texas Instruments actually made a bunch of those machines in Johnson City, TN. I moved there in the late 90s and got a job working for Siemens, who had bought the industrial automation division of TI a few years prior, which included the Johnson City plant. I had a desk in a lab in a large electronics manufacturing space that was repurposed as a cube farm and was privileged enough to work with some amazing people, a few legit graybeards and a bunch of old school EE types. In passing, one of them gave me a history lesson about the plant and what they had done there in the past.

It turned out that my desk at my first "real" IT job was fifteen feet from where my first computer was made.

Coincidentally, and not as happy a memory, my mother came down to visit me at Christmas that year, and I showed her my office between Christmas and New Years when almost no one was in the office. She took a picture of me at my desk, and that picture hung in her home ever since. She just passed away last December, twenty five years to the day after that picture was taken.

I was as bored as you were in the stores, and used to go to all the display PCs and add "ctty null" to their autoexec.bat files.

You forgot to multiply that 75% by the efficiency of the generator...

So, first: explanation of why coal produces more CO2 when burned than oil or gas. The short version is, "because coal has more carbon in it."

Next, comparison of efficiency of different types of fossil power. The charts you want are on pages 13 and 15. The data is pretty noisy because it's by country generating, but coal and oil are roughly the same efficiency if you remove the outlier datapoints.

The rest of my post is inferences drawn from those two metrics. You're welcome to dispute those inferences instead of dismissing my comment as nonsense. Ass.

RTM (1507) is good until 2025, 1607 is good until 2026, 1809 until 2029, but sadly 21H1 is good only until 2027. 21H1 IoT is good through 2032.

Windows 10 release information

This, so much this.

Windows 2000 plus the under-the-covers security improvements since then = much better than anything MS has actually shipped.

To be fair, several versions of Windows added significant under-the-hood security. XP Service Pack 2, Vista's "UAC" prompt (bad/annoying as ...., but better than not having it), 7, 10 (multiple versions), and 11 each brought something to the table security-wise.

Unfortunately most of them brought more and more stuff I don't need and don't want.

Are you sure about that?

Oil and coal have roughly the same efficiency for power generation, but coal produces more CO2 per ton than oil. That suggests you could put a generator on the ship to charge the batteries (burning bunker fuel) and have "lower lifetime emissions" than charging the ship from a coal power plant. Of course, instead of generating electric power with that bunker fuel, you could use it to turn the propeller shafts directly at even higher efficiency, so...

I haven't done the math, but unless the assumptions above are incorrect I would say you'd lose that bet.

It's true that the House of Representatives will not ratify this treaty. It's also true that the House will not ratify any treaties, because it is not part of the ratification process.

Again, you show a shocking lack of understanding about the treaty process. 50 + vice presidential tiebreak doesn't get you there, treaties in the US are ratified by a supermajority vote in the senate--you need 67 in favor (though, I suppose, under the right circumstances you could do it with as few as 35 votes in favor, i.e. if you convinced 49 senators to not show up that day you'd still have a quorum and the constitution specifies "two thirds of those present").

How soon before some kid^H^H^H^Hteen orders a bunch of stuff then his parents send it all back demanding a refund?

In most US states, most contracts with minors can be rescinded by their parents.

The summary suggests they never claimed it was certified N95. They claimed they used "N95 grade filters" (which was, apparently, true in that the filter material would block 95% of particles). They never claimed the mask itself was "certified" in any way.

I'm sure the droid that wrote the copy was probably using "N95 grade filters" in the exact same way that advertisers use the phrase "military grade encryption" to refer to 56-bit DES--technically true, but meaningless and misleading.