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Use just a tiny bit of intelligence. Do you seriously think no one can sell spherical magnets? It's the NAME that is protected; that's all.

I will readily admit that ebay's search function sucks donkey balls. Generally you do get better results just using google to search ebay for stuff. Or another good search engine, but google was the first one that worked and I still like them. IMO google search was the most innovative and critically useful tool to be invented for the web since the latter's creation.

No. Don't stop calling them 'patents'. Because this one has 'brought to you by a patent lawyer' written all over it! It's as broad and vague in the scope as it can be.

Just because you don't understand design patents doesn't mean they're broad in scope or vague. For example, you note:

It doesn't even mention proportions.

... which implies that you believe that they should have mentioned specific lengths and widths. But, see 37 CFR 1.153: "No description, other than a reference to the drawing, is ordinarily required."

That's not necessary with a design patent. Rather, the proportions are the ones shown in a figure. Break out a ruler and a calculator, and that ratio is the proportion claimed. Deviate substantially, and you don't infringe. What's substantially? Enough that an ordinary observer wouldn't confuse the infringing product and the claimed design. So while 4:3.01 wouldn't cut it, 16:9 may, and 2.40:1 definitely would.

If you look at traditional trademarked or patented design - say the coke bottle or the x-box - the designers went out of their way to create a unique shape. The author of this patent went out of his way to create a generic shape. The fact that it 'only applies to appearance' only makes it worse!

If it were generic, then you could point to other examples of the same shape as shown in all 8 figures, right? And bear in mind that something like D562285 doesn't show the same shape, and was even cited as being different.

https://encrypted.google.com/404

Now it's doubly safe!

It's just the horrible way it was built, they are just tiffs and you can get them manually. However there are a couple of plugins that solve the problem. Firefox Addon and Chrome Addon

He could just keep the system as it is, but slap a search interface onto it and have it index its files and their content -- to make them easier to find.
http://serverfault.com/questions/40356/open-source-alternative-to-google-appliance-for-intranet-search
http://university-web-developers.1112205.n2.nabble.com/Moving-away-from-a-Google-Search-Appliance-GSA-advice-td6509523.html
https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/68/secure_search/secure_search_crwlsrv
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

I assume that Google Drive will get that capability soon, but right now, it doesn't have it.

A telco is not a free market.

Also, its interesting how "profits" come up in the discussion... it comes up *any time* there is any mention of e.g regulations, etc. I concluded long ago that the business leaders will always cry poor until there is zero taxes and zero regulations. Regardless of how obscenely profitable they are.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=child+labor+free+market&hl=en&tbo=d&biw=819&bih=462&tbm=isch&tbnid=4IaS29nQjmUk6M:&imgrefurl=http://transitionvoice.com/2011/11/how-tea-party-and-occupy-wall-street-differ/&docid=cze_TRnbQcOVYM&imgurl=http://transitionvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Free%252BMarket.jpg&w=500&h=400&ei=muSaUK-OMsTs2QWu3YHoBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=4&vpy=136&dur=2141&hovh=201&hovw=251&tx=184&ty=116&sig=100218895460955643136&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=196&start=0&ndsp=9&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:71

Too bad for them.

The economy has improved every year under Obama.

Nope, GDP growth has been declining since 2010: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth+chart#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&ifdim=region&tstart=1226034000000&tend=1320642000000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

It's recovering faster then pretty much every other country hit by the crisis.

You do realize that this crisis hit different segments of the world at different periods of time, right? China's "crisis", for instance, is just starting. And you're also wrong that we're recovering faster than the rest of the world: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth+chart#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&idim=region:ECA:LAC:EAP&ifdim=region&tstart=1226034000000&tend=1320642000000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

The economy has improved every year under Obama.

Nope, GDP growth has been declining since 2010: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth+chart#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&ifdim=region&tstart=1226034000000&tend=1320642000000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

It's recovering faster then pretty much every other country hit by the crisis.

You do realize that this crisis hit different segments of the world at different periods of time, right? China's "crisis", for instance, is just starting. And you're also wrong that we're recovering faster than the rest of the world: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth+chart#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&idim=region:ECA:LAC:EAP&ifdim=region&tstart=1226034000000&tend=1320642000000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

That's too insecure.

https://www.google.com/404. There. Now it's safe.

Broke it. Does that mean it's safe now? http://www.google.com/404

Bush's economic policies (tax cuts for the rich, getting our country attacked by not listening to the previous adminiatration or his own FBI agents), and starting two very expensive wars to nearly bankrupt us.

Tax cuts that Obama extended. And war costs that are far smaller than the legislation Obama passed (bailouts, stimulus, healthcare).

Bush went into office with a balanced budget and a booming economy

Booming? Are you nuts? The 9/11 terrorist attacks sparked a mini recession in '01 at the start of Bush's term. In his second term, housing prices peaked in '06 and we were in a recession by late '07. At best, those 8 years were a period of mediocre economic activity (~2% average GDP growth per year, if that): http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+gdp+growth+chart#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:USA&ifdim=region&tstart=973573200000&tend=1320642000000&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false

left it with the largest defecit in US history and the economy in ruins

A deficit that Obama continued to extend...

Unemployment is lower than when Obama took office

By .1%??? Man you have low standards for 4 years of action and trillions of dollars of deficit spending. 4 years! Hell, at some point you have to stop blaming Bush. Or will Obama get a free pass for the next four years of economic blundering as well? What are you going to blame it on this time? Europe? China?

Things are getting better, fool.

When the country is at rock bottom, it isn't very hard to see "improvement". I'm sorry, but I have higher standards. This recovery is the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.

You should not be surprised. Tavis Ormandy is an arrogant asshole, the biggest I've seen at Google so far.

--
Marcan, professional asshole

I took this picture while I was in Manhattan this summer. I took the picture due to that saying, there was a part of me laughing hysterically at the glass houses thing.

It's not just me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic+underpants%22+%22magic+underwear%22&hl=en&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A01%2F01%2F1990%2Ccd_max%3A01%2F01%2F2008

If this reuse of "magic underpants" was so well-known that it left the term tainted forever I'd think it wouldn't be so obscure...

Whoops you've got this backwards. Things broke as Pidgin moved to newer versions of the MSNP protocol.

So the Pidgin devs forgot the dog wags the tail, not the other way around?

It boils down to the same thing: features stopped working and they didn't want to fix it, instead sending those issues in the "patches welcome" (aka: fit it yourself) bin.

For Android there is Hacker's Keyboard which gives you arrow keys, CTRL, TAB, etc. I assume there are similar apps for iOS.

... before the truth hits, that is.

You've done a very good job as the self-appointed Apple fanboy, so much so that you are telling a flat out lie.

Google never withhold its turn-by-turn voice navigation.

They most certainly did. They still don't allow it for anybody using Google Maps/Google Earth API. https://developers.google.com/maps/terms.

Google _could_ have given me turn by turn navigation in their version but they chose not to.

Google has never had a maps app on iOS. It's always been an Apple app.

And they couldn't offer turn-by-turn because Google still doesn't allow allow it. https://developers.google.com/maps/terms

10.2 Restrictions on the Types of Applications that You are Permitted to Build with the Maps API(s). Except as explicitly permitted in Section 8 (Licenses from Google to You) or the Maps APIs Documentation, you must not (nor may you permit anyone else to) do any of the following:

(c) No Navigation, Autonomous Vehicle Control, or Enterprise Applications. You must not use the Service or Content with any products, systems, or applications for or in connection with any of the following:

(i) real time navigation or route guidance, including but not limited to turn-by-turn route guidance that is synchronized to the position of a user's sensor-enabled device.

The strained relations between Braben and Bell seem to be connected with some things Braben did on F:FE, after which Bell made some uncomplimentary comments in this interview, after which Braben sued Bell for libel. The original issue does seem to be in part some kind of glory-claiming, but I neither know nor care who's in the right... who knows, perhaps they've kissed and made up by now.

Take this opportunity to reorganize and clean up your desk, you're going to start fresh!

1) Disconnect everything and clean up on/around your desk. Dust your monitors, wipe down the surface, move any papers that are piled up. When I dealt with rat nests of wires, I never was able to vacuum/dust. Do it now when it is easiest.
2) Put your desk on sliders. Even the heaviest hardwood desk on carpet becomes easy to move alone when you do this. If you're on hardwood or some other surface, clean around the desk before moving it, or you'll scratch it up.
3) Leave the desk away from the wall so you can get behind it. Set up everything exactly how you want it, but leave the loose cables wherever you put them before and leave the other cables (mouse, keyboard) bundled up next to their owners.

Now you're ready for the fun part!
Think about how you want to route the cables; that means don't let them touch the floor! I love routing them under the desk surface in the back because they're pretty much invisible and the cats don't chew on them. If you have a cheap fiberboard desk like I do, consider using screw-in hooks (use a small nail to make a pilot hole). If you have a metal/glass or an otherwise nice desk, use sticky hooks (3M Command hooks are usually too big - I like cable tie mounts with zip/twist ties set into a loose loop).
Start with the cables for the devices you'll move the least; this probably means your power strip, modem & router, and other network cables (I like to mount these to the side/back of my desk so they're out of the way but close to everything - this is especially important with the power strip). Move on to the monitors & speakers, then the external hard drives & USB hubs. The last things you want to hook up are probably your keyboard & mouse.

1) Once you've connected the device, stop and take a look at the cables; anything that you can group together, wrap it in spiral cable wrap, starting at the device and going back. Two network cables from the router to your towers? Wrap them together. Your monitor's DVI & power cables? Wrap them. Be sure to give yourself enough length of wrapped cable so you can move your devices around as far as you think you'll want to.
2) Now you take up any slack in the cable by bundling it - just be sure to leave a little bit of slack in the cable - just enough so it has a nice bend radius at the computer/router/wall. Hang the bundles together from a hook/anchor in an inconspicuous place. Use N+1 ties so you can get at it later - one for the hook/anchor, and one for each bundle (I especially love using twist ties for this part):
- For small DC cables, wrap the extra length neatly around 4 fingers, flatten the bundle. Secure with a twist / zip / velcro tie.
- For bigger cables, hold it in your palm and keep reversing direction across your palm - leave a reasonable bend radius. Secure it as above.
- For network cables; buy a crimping tool and learn to use it.

Push your desk back into place and you're done! Use weighted cable managers or adhesive to hold USB hubs from falling off your desk and enjoy!

Take this opportunity to reorganize and clean up your desk, you're going to start fresh!

1) Disconnect everything and clean up on/around your desk. Dust your monitors, wipe down the surface, move any papers that are piled up. When I dealt with rat nests of wires, I never was able to vacuum/dust. Do it now when it is easiest.
2) Put your desk on sliders. Even the heaviest hardwood desk on carpet becomes easy to move alone when you do this. If you're on hardwood or some other surface, clean around the desk before moving it, or you'll scratch it up.
3) Leave the desk away from the wall so you can get behind it. Set up everything exactly how you want it, but leave the loose cables wherever you put them before and leave the other cables (mouse, keyboard) bundled up next to their owners.

Now you're ready for the fun part!
Think about how you want to route the cables; that means don't let them touch the floor! I love routing them under the desk surface in the back because they're pretty much invisible and the cats don't chew on them. If you have a cheap fiberboard desk like I do, consider using screw-in hooks (use a small nail to make a pilot hole). If you have a metal/glass or an otherwise nice desk, use sticky hooks (3M Command hooks are usually too big - I like cable tie mounts with zip/twist ties set into a loose loop).
Start with the cables for the devices you'll move the least; this probably means your power strip, modem & router, and other network cables (I like to mount these to the side/back of my desk so they're out of the way but close to everything - this is especially important with the power strip). Move on to the monitors & speakers, then the external hard drives & USB hubs. The last things you want to hook up are probably your keyboard & mouse.

1) Once you've connected the device, stop and take a look at the cables; anything that you can group together, wrap it in spiral cable wrap, starting at the device and going back. Two network cables from the router to your towers? Wrap them together. Your monitor's DVI & power cables? Wrap them. Be sure to give yourself enough length of wrapped cable so you can move your devices around as far as you think you'll want to.
2) Now you take up any slack in the cable by bundling it - just be sure to leave a little bit of slack in the cable - just enough so it has a nice bend radius at the computer/router/wall. Hang the bundles together from a hook/anchor in an inconspicuous place. Use N+1 ties so you can get at it later - one for the hook/anchor, and one for each bundle (I especially love using twist ties for this part):
- For small DC cables, wrap the extra length neatly around 4 fingers, flatten the bundle. Secure with a twist / zip / velcro tie.
- For bigger cables, hold it in your palm and keep reversing direction across your palm - leave a reasonable bend radius. Secure it as above.
- For network cables; buy a crimping tool and learn to use it.

Push your desk back into place and you're done! Use weighted cable managers or adhesive to hold USB hubs from falling off your desk and enjoy!

Take this opportunity to reorganize and clean up your desk, you're going to start fresh!

1) Disconnect everything and clean up on/around your desk. Dust your monitors, wipe down the surface, move any papers that are piled up. When I dealt with rat nests of wires, I never was able to vacuum/dust. Do it now when it is easiest.
2) Put your desk on sliders. Even the heaviest hardwood desk on carpet becomes easy to move alone when you do this. If you're on hardwood or some other surface, clean around the desk before moving it, or you'll scratch it up.
3) Leave the desk away from the wall so you can get behind it. Set up everything exactly how you want it, but leave the loose cables wherever you put them before and leave the other cables (mouse, keyboard) bundled up next to their owners.

Now you're ready for the fun part!
Think about how you want to route the cables; that means don't let them touch the floor! I love routing them under the desk surface in the back because they're pretty much invisible and the cats don't chew on them. If you have a cheap fiberboard desk like I do, consider using screw-in hooks (use a small nail to make a pilot hole). If you have a metal/glass or an otherwise nice desk, use sticky hooks (3M Command hooks are usually too big - I like cable tie mounts with zip/twist ties set into a loose loop).
Start with the cables for the devices you'll move the least; this probably means your power strip, modem & router, and other network cables (I like to mount these to the side/back of my desk so they're out of the way but close to everything - this is especially important with the power strip). Move on to the monitors & speakers, then the external hard drives & USB hubs. The last things you want to hook up are probably your keyboard & mouse.

1) Once you've connected the device, stop and take a look at the cables; anything that you can group together, wrap it in spiral cable wrap, starting at the device and going back. Two network cables from the router to your towers? Wrap them together. Your monitor's DVI & power cables? Wrap them. Be sure to give yourself enough length of wrapped cable so you can move your devices around as far as you think you'll want to.
2) Now you take up any slack in the cable by bundling it - just be sure to leave a little bit of slack in the cable - just enough so it has a nice bend radius at the computer/router/wall. Hang the bundles together from a hook/anchor in an inconspicuous place. Use N+1 ties so you can get at it later - one for the hook/anchor, and one for each bundle (I especially love using twist ties for this part):
- For small DC cables, wrap the extra length neatly around 4 fingers, flatten the bundle. Secure with a twist / zip / velcro tie.
- For bigger cables, hold it in your palm and keep reversing direction across your palm - leave a reasonable bend radius. Secure it as above.
- For network cables; buy a crimping tool and learn to use it.

Push your desk back into place and you're done! Use weighted cable managers or adhesive to hold USB hubs from falling off your desk and enjoy!

The Google logo got caught with its hand in the ballot box cookie jar! It's all over Google's front page!

Print out "DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THESE WIRES" on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, tape to something in highly visible area.
Done.

google image search with above phrase for implementation examples.

I see no examples of the sign in use.

casual discussions about a potential acquisition/hire agreement

That's a long way from an actual buyout. About half of big deals that are announced as done fall through. If you're not in a conference room at Wilson Sonsini on Page Mill talking to someone who reports to Zuckerberg, its not serious yet.

A pending patent is mentioned. That's not that big a deal. Anybody who's any good in Silicon Valley has a patent or two. I have six, two of which have produced significant revenue. It's unlikely that broad coverage can be achieved on a scheme for packing disk drives into racks. There's much prior art. You probably have a six month advantage over the competition. If that. Evtron doesn't seem to be actually shipping product. Compare what AmpliStore is actually shipping. The number of disk drives per rack is lower, but there are 40 computers in there, too. A storage farm with small ARM-based CPUs might cut the space needed for the compute power, but that's not exactly an original idea.

So take the money if you can get it.

Don't forget Jobbie Nooner! w00t!

If I was Apple I would have set the price at $250 and lived with little or no profit and counted on iTunes sales.

then you would be amazon. and you would be losing money.

Last week went fishing for perch on warm fall day, it was great, this is 20 minutes away and ate them the next day. You can do this year around.
http://www.lakestclair.net/index.php?/forum/5-fishing-reports/
In the summer you can go to :
http://www.detroitjazzfest.com/ or
https://www.google.com/search?q=bell+isle+images&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=TpR&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&spell=1&q=belle+isle+images&sa=X&ei=VC6ZUJvHJOiy0QHtlIGgDA&ved=0CB4QvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d1f3ab650e43904f&bpcl=37189454&biw=1138&bih=527

I seen deer at a park 20 minutes the other direction surrounded by suburbs.

So like watching tv news, googling will only get you a fraction of the story.
 

With the magic of the Internet! ;)

And like the C5 - and the Segway - its few devotees will continue to claim that the problems will be dealt with by re-designing entire cities in order to facilitate their particular mode of transport.

Actually, in the Netherlands and many other countries, cities are redesigned to accomodate more and faster cycling. See this new cycling highway recently built in the Netherlands. Guess what vehicles were used for the opening ceremony.

What are you talking about? Here's its entry in a dictionary from the year 1806. Please don't give the rest of us spelling/grammar Nazis a bad name.

Excuse me, but the proper term is "Logomachist".

That's not what he was talking about. The reason it's funny is because it touches on something true: the fact that Linux doesn't wake up from suspend on some of the multitudinous hardware out there. I myself had this problem on brandname (HP) desktop, until I went and customized suspend with blacklist.conf.

What are you talking about? Here's its entry in a dictionary from the year 1806. Please don't give the rest of us spelling/grammar Nazis a bad name.

Boeing doesn't have it's own runway exactly; what they do have is property right next-door to both Paine Field and Boeing Field. You probably saw Boeing Field since it's only about 3 miles north of SeaTac, but I've come in on approaches to SeaTac where you can see both of the other fields.

Boeing doesn't have it's own runway exactly; what they do have is property right next-door to both Paine Field and Boeing Field. You probably saw Boeing Field since it's only about 3 miles north of SeaTac, but I've come in on approaches to SeaTac where you can see both of the other fields.

"However, more analysis needs to be put into their plan; more requirements gathering and architecture is needed."

Something I tried to get NASA to support a dozen years ago: http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/

That said, the Factor e Farm people are really trying hard and making some progress in the general area. What is ridiculous is that this is not a top priority issue funded by NASA, NIST, and European counterparts with hundreds of thousands of reasonable paid engineers involved.

Another related idea I posted:
"Getting Greece and Iceland to be 99% self-sufficient by mass; international consortium"
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/openmanufacturing/YzbzBFjeBkg/HXC7-XHSGLkJ
"Now, does this [Greece running out of tear gas during riots about economics] make any sense if you understand the possibilities of open manufacturing or an open society? In Greece you have a warm climate, access to oceans, lots of sun and wind, an educated populace with a 2000+ year history of democracy (on and off :-), no obvious external enemies declaring war, and so on. And they are so worried about their future ability to make and use things (which is how I translate "fears for Greece's economic future") that they are running out of tear gas? This all makes no *physical* sense. The place should be a paradise. Instead it is in "self-destruct mode" according to one editor. It must be *ideology*. Or, more correctly, ideology *embodied* in a certain type of productive infrastructure. ..."

The closes I know of from the US government is from the Carter presidency: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

Here is something more recent from NIST which is great but not quite as self-replication focused and only had about 20 staff involved (last I heard):
http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/lifecycle/sm_smo.cfm
http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/lifecycle/

Frankly, it feels to me like the failure of engineering academia in the USA to comprehensively work to analyze our productive processes is perhaps a reflection of how much a certain form of capitalist ideology infests US academia. It seems like it is heresy to even consider that anything other than some mystical "market" would decide what would be manufactured or how it would be made or moved between users, even though a lot of companies are being weighed down by supply chains they don't really understand or control. So, in academia you can study one tiny part of how something is made, but you can't try to create an approach to comprehend the whole because that goes against mainstream economic dogma of willful blindness about lifecycle consequences and comprehensive design. Only in a thought experiment like NASA might do about a moon base or something like that is it permitted to discuss the idea of comprehensive planning about how to make *everything* and take it all through a full lifecycle. Meanwhile, we drown in our own e-waste because externalities like disposal are not priced in up-front. Modern computer-based manufacturing has the potential to be so flexible that we could have, if not Star Trek replicators, at least the next best thing of small production runs and mass customization coming out of very flexible manufacturing lines (seem James P. Hogan's "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" for some descriptions of what that would look like, set in a space habitat).

Still, there is the RepRap project and such as an exception in academia. So, I think change is happening, slowly. Maybe the rate of change on this meme is growing exponentially though?

Your advice is terrible. If you are investing in a generally bull market and without government inflation, that is one thing. However you missed the part of my comment where I explained about inflation (a subject that is generally not understood by pretty much all people, very few truly understand it). Inflation is destroying your investments even if you are not touching them.

You have to look at your investments relative to the actual purchasing power over time, not to nominal dollar gains or losses. As such, anybody who followed your advice and invested in the stock market this way lost money over the last few decades.

Many of those who invested in the stock market bubble of the nineties got wiped out completely. Those who remained in stocks and bonds got their purchasing power eaten by inflation.

It's easy just to look at the indexes like DOW or NASDAQ and compare their relative change to gold. For example DOW could have been around 11000 in 2001 and 13000 today, but gold was 300 in 2001 and it's over 1685 today. The loss of purchasing power is obvious (from 1/36 to 1/7.7).

Again, I think this is the best thing anybody could do: do NOT invest into things you do not understand, especially during high inflationary environment caused by growth of government. You can find somebody to do it for you, but my point was that the government also makes it very difficult to find people who do it well as opposed to following the specially concocted government formula, which WILL have you mostly in government bonds one way or another (either via actual government debt instrument or via bank or other financial stock or any other 'government approved' way to steal your money from you)/

Zero crossings and low output amplitudes with outphasing techniques are a bitch. If you use a hybrid combiner, nearly all of the energy goes into a dummy load on the difference port. If you use a "lossless" combiner such as a matching network, the VSWR seen by the amp elements skyrockets and - best case, efficiency is crap. Worst case, you fry the output stages of the amp.

Around a decade ago I worked on an outphasing system - I fried a LOT of hardware by accidentally feeding the system a low or zero amplitude, which effectively caused two amps to fight each other 180 degrees out of phase. http://www.google.com/patents/US6930547

What they seem to be doing here is reducing the voltage provided to the amp elements, reducing the power output, which allows them to reduce total output power efficiently while keeping the two amp elements relatively in-phase, and also allowing them to "fight" each other without frying themselves like they would if running at full power.

E.g. it's probably something like outphasing for 70-100% envelope levels, and power supply modulation below that. Likely not a "hard" threshold - they probably transition from one approach to the other somewhere in the 30-70% operating region.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3222705&cid=41842229 for some more details.

No results found for "the ssl port bug".

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+ssl+port+bug&oq=the+ssl+port+bug

Just make sure you don't grow your own grain to feed your own chickens

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=roscoe%20filburn&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWickard_v._Filburn&ei=lzSXUM__MMSW2AWLkIHIAw&usg=AFQjCNFN0flFjCoNo0rtuaegJoAYE5VStQ

Or use vegetable oil to power your diesel engine without paying your fuel tax

http://herald-review.com/news/local/article_5dae2327-a3cb-5bba-ac4c-14dac3b83327.html

I'm not developing on a fucking smart phone, so suck an egg.

I am ... must suck to have your phone!

From United's Q3 financials:

Net profit margin 0.06%

but having just flown SwissAir and Lufthansa, I have to agree about food and service being better in Europe.

Please read a few of the stories from this Google search, absentee voting is not a fool proof as you think.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lincoln+co+wv+absentee+voting+fraud&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Seriously, you're being an ass. I've read through this page of threads, and you've made numerous posts including mistakes of judgment that come across as lies; and then you insult your potential audience. You may have good points, but they are lost or devalued by your tone and approach. Simply as a style of argumentation, your posts wind up more alienating than convincing. This is not the way to bring people over to your way of thinking.

For others, this video evidence that rs79 posted in the GP is a talk hosted by the Sydney Institute. The Sydney Institute itself may or may not be pushing a conservative anti-AGW agenda; at any rate, Gerard Henderson is Executive Director and his wife is the Deputy Director (staff roster), with some online commentators describing them as "neocon" in their views. Gerard Henderson was an adviser to former Australian PM John Howard, whose general political leanings were quite close to those of George W. Bush.

In short, the source is a bit suspect.

The talk itself is about an hour long. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but the speaker is Murry Salby, professor of environmental science at Macquarie University in Australia and the university's Climate Chair (university staff page). His basic argument is that global temperature controls CO2 levels, not the other way around. His views are somewhat controversial, perhaps unsurprisingly, and are discussed and refuted to some extent in numerous articles at Skeptical Science, among other places.

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In all fairness, I could probably dissect most arguments similarly and dig up links to this or that refutation. However, my point here is not to try to claim that Salby is wrong -- I don't know that, and I don't have the educational background to make that judgment. My point, instead, is that Salby's views do not appear to be the authoritative end-all-and-be-all slam-dunk finishing end to the argument of whether humans are responsible for global warming.

Cheers,

You obviously aren't thinking about the secondary effects. A story on Slashdot advertises it to mainstream media. A Google search for Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling gives a link to this story on the 22nd page of the search results: Apple accused of hiding U.K. Samsung 'apology' with code. A story on CNet may become mainstream news. Even if it doesn't, the story is traveling fast with 21 other pages of web sites.

A lot of people on Slashdot make comments that show they aren't thinking carefully. However, many people who do think carefully read Slashdot. The kind of person who thinks carefully has social power.

Apple has loudly advertised, "We can't be trusted. We're dishonest." People may think that, if Apple can so easily be sneaky about that, maybe the company can't be trusted to provide good hardware or service. Remember, those who buy hardware now are depending on the supplier for years to come.

Its not a personal page, its simply a list, with links, to truly show stopping bugs, bugs that go back YEARS and have not been fixed.

But if you want to ignore evidence go right ahead, it won't be any different than how the OEMs and pretty much everyone else ignores Linux. Its been free for 20+ years, yet you see its numbers going nowhere, and no Android is NOT Linux because if you are gonna count that then you might as well say that Apple is a FOSS OS since it uses a BSD kernel. Google controls Android, you have no say, they don't accept submissions, they own the OS.

But if you want to know why Linux goes nowhere there is the list, you can follow the links and see over 200! show stopping bugs, not rare stuff either, serious problems with all three major graphics systems, wireless, sound, the list is huge. Linus refuses to admit there are problems, refuses to change, when even a Red Hat dev says the current system is broken which is of course why Dell hides Linux on the back pages, tries to warn users away, and has to run their own repo just to keep the fricking updates from crapping on the drivers. Great job there guys, can't even update the system without breaking drivers.

That's not true. You can plant trees. Most of the problem with increased CO2 is because we've cut down nearly all the trees in the world.

Do the math. Figure out how much carbon dioxide you want to get rid of then figure out how many trees per person that works out to be. Of if each person planted, say, 1 quick growing but short lived tree (say, poplar) and 1 slow growing but long lived tree (say, oak) that would work even better. This is Freeman Dyson's idea.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

I'm a bit alarmed that the alarmists are surprised to find out trees eat CO2. You'd sorta think guys that made a career out of CO2 would know what it does.

Development implies cutting down trees. The impact of this on, well, everything is unimaginable. Given the IPCC isn't even aware trees eat Co2 do really wonder why there's skeptics?

"8th December 2010 13:24 GMT - A group of top NASA and NOAA scientists say that current climate models predicting global warming are far too gloomy, and have failed to properly account for an important cooling factor which will come into play as CO2 levels rise"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/08/new_model_doubled_co2_sub_2_degrees_warming/

"Forests play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released Thursday has shown."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

Good god - trees eat Co2. Why this isn't what we previously suspected at all!

Ie, the missed their grade 6 science class.

iPhone Interface For Ham Radio Mates Old With New

Who says Ham Radio is old? It started in 1909, six years after the electrical outlet was patented, which the iPhone already utilized. The iPhone is just catching up with latter-day interfaces.

As little as I like agreeing with ACs, this was my exact thought upon reading TFS. I know this is News For Nerds, but let's not pretend getting data centers back up is more important than rebuilding an area that's been severely decimated (and not in the Roman 10% way).

Take a look at this:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&sclient=psy-ab&q=+new+york+city+recovery+hurricane+sandy&oq=+new+york+city+recovery+hurricane+sandy

Over 200,000 articles and 3600 news sources covering NYC's recovery efforts. Surely there's enough space left on the Internet for a News for Nerds site to cover news for nerds?

No they all have to be exactly the same, with teh same priorities, just different logos on each story.

People like him are not broad minded. They are small-minded, tunnelvision types. So, everything being the same with no important differences is the only sense of proportion (lack thereof) people like GP possess. For them nothing else will do.

This shit is really popular. Maybe somecelebrities act that way and now everybody else has to emulate them. Sheep need, actually demand, their shepherd. Whatever. It's destroying the heart and soul of anything that ever meant anything.

You understand that or you don't.