I wonder what kinds of numbers something like this could push. Tolerances? Forward / Reverse Bias, Beta values, Depletion region sizes, Breakdown voltages etc...Does anybody have a white-paper link or know if the data is published anywhere public? I am just curious as to how they go about verifying this constructs functionality as a transistor, be it giant simulators, or actual experimental observations.
In the future we will have multimeters / scopes that probe the body's..erm..wait...nvm.
Yes it does. If a man is bleeding to death outside a bandage store, I am perfectly entitled to get the bandages and save the mans life even if he cannot pay or the store is closed.
That is not true. At least from a legal standpoint. If such a thing were true, if a homeless person is starving to death, is he "perfectly entitled" to breaking into a grocery store, even if the store is closed? FUCK NO. Now don't get me wrong, I am not trying to come off as a cold hearted ass, but when you start applying entitlement to situations involving unauthorized acquisition of private goods, drawing the line just cannot be done without legal precedent, so please cite a case in which a person was entitled to another persons goods based on need, and was given right to take those goods without the other persons consent, regardless of extenuating circumstances.
Entitlement will be the death if America. Look at Greece. They felt entitled to everything, were given everything, and it broke them. Look at California. Look anywhere where large amounts of entitlement ran the country for years.
The Venus Project and the Zeitgeist movement seem to push that mentality, but unfortunately the eccentricity of Jacque Fresco and the verbosity of Alex Jones keep them down sometimes. Check out their website for a possible glimpse of a better future.
Although Tom Cruise is bonkers, Minority Report stands as an insightful commentary of what happens when we let the automated world really permeate the culture. Philip K. Dick had it right (minus the whole precog thing, but who knows what could happen).
To rid the world of every shred of privacy remaining (not that there is much, admittedly)./shudder
Flamebait? Or -1 disagree mods? The usage case studies for behavioral analytics is a big winner for folks in targeting marketing and law-enforcement, two of the areas of greatest privacy loss. If this is Flamebait, then whoever modded this must spontaneously combust when they read the daily headlines. Welcome to Slashdot.
the system was built thanks to a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers.
I spent a brief amount of time checking out Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and this was one of the activities they offered pennies on the hour for. Yay for crowd-sourced globalization! 100 years from now, when many of the mundanities of life are automated, is this what minimum wage workers will be doing?
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Ok, now that that's out of our system, can we talk about something else for once?
If the government passes this bill, do you think they would axe this tax? Would they be required to?
IANAC, but from experience here in the US, once a tax is in effect, it is like a cancer. All it does is grow, and no matter what you do to get rid of it, it usually pops back up in one form or another.
After spending approximately 2 seconds of my life analyzing the infographic, only to realize it is just a picture of the ways people have been wasting time for the past millennium, I have concluded that I need to get the fuck off/. and go outside.
Not really a spill, but more of an oil "menstruating hemorrhage" by the earth (man induced). Perhaps Tampax can step in, they do have some experience in the absorption arena.
I posted this once before, but here is a good link to an ArcGIS 'Message in a Bottle' plotter. Now I know the dynamics of an oil spill and the dynamics of a floating bottle are apples and oranges, but it still provides an inkling of the possible ramifications of this goop spreading. Click a couple points around the perimeter of the spill, and just watch the areas that will be affected due to lack of early containment.
I understand they are a business, but dammit if they didn't do everything in their power to eek money out of it, even after it was deemed a catastrophe. Yes, I understand they are an oil company and that killing the well is your least favorite option because it doesn't make your money, but well, I believe intentions are a bit 'questionable' at best when it comes to the order of control methodologies.
With freedom of speech inherently comes the right to be offended occasionally. Deal with it. Or curl into a ball of sensitivity, write your congress to have more 'sensitivity laws' passed and more anti-obscene social mores proliferated so we can be more polysocially-correctified into dull, dreary, non-offensive, bubbles and fairies and sunshine oblivion.
As a race, humanity hasn't changed too drastically from an evolutionary standpoint in the past thousand or so years. Looking at history, and mankind's propensity to wage wars, kill, slaughter, and just be plain vile, well, the future doesn't look any different than the past. With every new technological development, its a game of "Now figure out how to blow each other up with this X new technology".
Of course there exist scientist, humanitarians, artisans, and others of the less warring nature, but the fact remains that those in power want to stay in power, and violence tends to work better for them. As long as greed, power, and control are the driving motivations for the more tenacious world leaders, I don't believe we will seem full nuclear weapon non-proliferation, ever.
Here is a better example, its a bit more responsive and its hosted directly on the ArcGIS demo center, no registration required, (just?) silverlight. Zoom in to the gulf and just start clicking.
And yes, again, this is probably wildly inaccurate and unpredictable, but it is still pretty cool.
If you have a google account, check out this link. It adds the ArcGIS Server - Message in a Bottle applet to your google maps. Click the map and watch the "bottle" travel the path of the streamlines. Do it a couple times around the area of the oil spill and get a rough idea of the possible trajectories. Yes there are significant differences between an oil slick on top of the water and a glass bottle, but I have yet to find anywhere else public-ish facing where you can dynamically plot stream line points for free. Map experts/enthusiast?
Let the number of the post be defined by a monotonically increasing function f, such that the initial value of f is zero.
Corollary 1.1:
Let the rate of posting trolls be defined by the the exponentially decaying 4th degree wave function of T(t), with a maximum frequency of/b/tards approximated inside
t[10,60] seconds, with T(t) approaching 0 as t approaches infinity.
While I am for net-neutrality, and we do need some form of regulation on the internet to keep the providers fair and clean, do not, and I repeat, do not assume that the government is pushing net neutrality for the purpose of helping you. There have been many times in the United States where our government will push something like Social Security, saying "This is to help the widows with children", which, yes, is a noble cause that many can't argue with. But look at it now, it is a system used to hook the societal leeches and give paychecks to fat-asses who are too lazy to get up and work.
My point it, watch the other hand. History shows that while on the surface what Uncle Sugar is doing may seem beneficial to average Joe, there sure as hell are things going on behind the scenes that I guarantee will hurt you personally in the long run.
Let me restate, we do need some regulation regarding the neutrality of the internet, but there are ulterior motives most likely at hand. In 10 years, do you think it is that out of the question that your tax money will be used to subsidize lower-class internet connections? What do you think all those extra FCC related charges are on your cell bill.
Also, you do not have a god given right to the internet. But you do have a say in it if you contribute. Your taxes subsidize infrastructure grants that go to these companies, and when these companies are limiting freedom of speech through their filtering agendas, then yes, there is an argument. But watch the other hand.
Seeing as Al Gore invented the internet and all, I presume this 'Inconvenient Truth' could be fixed by a consortium of Ted Stevens, Gore, and some good tube management.
Oh really? Go to this website and check out the links. The majority are all from reputable sources. You will notice that the links from many of them are broken. Intentionally. For fear of public backlash. They knew. They all knew it was coming, they may not have known about the fine-grained details, but many of them knew not to fly, not to be in New York, and other poignant details about the oncoming attack.
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I wonder what kinds of numbers something like this could push. Tolerances? Forward / Reverse Bias, Beta values, Depletion region sizes, Breakdown voltages etc...Does anybody have a white-paper link or know if the data is published anywhere public? I am just curious as to how they go about verifying this constructs functionality as a transistor, be it giant simulators, or actual experimental observations.
In the future we will have multimeters / scopes that probe the body's..erm..wait...nvm.
Yes it does. If a man is bleeding to death outside a bandage store, I am perfectly entitled to get the bandages and save the mans life even if he cannot pay or the store is closed.
That is not true. At least from a legal standpoint. If such a thing were true, if a homeless person is starving to death, is he "perfectly entitled" to breaking into a grocery store, even if the store is closed? FUCK NO. Now don't get me wrong, I am not trying to come off as a cold hearted ass, but when you start applying entitlement to situations involving unauthorized acquisition of private goods, drawing the line just cannot be done without legal precedent, so please cite a case in which a person was entitled to another persons goods based on need, and was given right to take those goods without the other persons consent, regardless of extenuating circumstances.
Entitlement will be the death if America. Look at Greece. They felt entitled to everything, were given everything, and it broke them. Look at California. Look anywhere where large amounts of entitlement ran the country for years.
Last I checked, they offer the videos free for download as torrents, physical copies cost some ducats, else-wise, I do agree with you wholeheartedly.
The Venus Project and the Zeitgeist movement seem to push that mentality, but unfortunately the eccentricity of Jacque Fresco and the verbosity of Alex Jones keep them down sometimes. Check out their website for a possible glimpse of a better future.
Although Tom Cruise is bonkers, Minority Report stands as an insightful commentary of what happens when we let the automated world really permeate the culture. Philip K. Dick had it right (minus the whole precog thing, but who knows what could happen).
To rid the world of every shred of privacy remaining (not that there is much, admittedly). /shudder
Flamebait? Or -1 disagree mods? The usage case studies for behavioral analytics is a big winner for folks in targeting marketing and law-enforcement, two of the areas of greatest privacy loss. If this is Flamebait, then whoever modded this must spontaneously combust when they read the daily headlines. Welcome to Slashdot.
the system was built thanks to a database of millions of human-labeled images put together by Chinese workers.
I spent a brief amount of time checking out Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and this was one of the activities they offered pennies on the hour for. Yay for crowd-sourced globalization! 100 years from now, when many of the mundanities of life are automated, is this what minimum wage workers will be doing?
Let me do everybody a favor:
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Ok, now that that's out of our system, can we talk about something else for once?
[citation needed]
If the government passes this bill, do you think they would axe this tax? Would they be required to?
IANAC, but from experience here in the US, once a tax is in effect, it is like a cancer. All it does is grow, and no matter what you do to get rid of it, it usually pops back up in one form or another.
After spending approximately 2 seconds of my life analyzing the infographic, only to realize it is just a picture of the ways people have been wasting time for the past millennium, I have concluded that I need to get the fuck off /. and go outside.
Not really a spill, but more of an oil "menstruating hemorrhage" by the earth (man induced). Perhaps Tampax can step in, they do have some experience in the absorption arena.
I posted this once before, but here is a good link to an ArcGIS 'Message in a Bottle' plotter. Now I know the dynamics of an oil spill and the dynamics of a floating bottle are apples and oranges, but it still provides an inkling of the possible ramifications of this goop spreading. Click a couple points around the perimeter of the spill, and just watch the areas that will be affected due to lack of early containment.
I understand they are a business, but dammit if they didn't do everything in their power to eek money out of it, even after it was deemed a catastrophe. Yes, I understand they are an oil company and that killing the well is your least favorite option because it doesn't make your money, but well, I believe intentions are a bit 'questionable' at best when it comes to the order of control methodologies.
With freedom of speech inherently comes the right to be offended occasionally. Deal with it. Or curl into a ball of sensitivity, write your congress to have more 'sensitivity laws' passed and more anti-obscene social mores proliferated so we can be more polysocially-correctified into dull, dreary, non-offensive, bubbles and fairies and sunshine oblivion.
As a race, humanity hasn't changed too drastically from an evolutionary standpoint in the past thousand or so years. Looking at history, and mankind's propensity to wage wars, kill, slaughter, and just be plain vile, well, the future doesn't look any different than the past. With every new technological development, its a game of "Now figure out how to blow each other up with this X new technology".
Of course there exist scientist, humanitarians, artisans, and others of the less warring nature, but the fact remains that those in power want to stay in power, and violence tends to work better for them. As long as greed, power, and control are the driving motivations for the more tenacious world leaders, I don't believe we will seem full nuclear weapon non-proliferation, ever.
Here is a better example, its a bit more responsive and its hosted directly on the ArcGIS demo center, no registration required, (just?) silverlight. Zoom in to the gulf and just start clicking.
And yes, again, this is probably wildly inaccurate and unpredictable, but it is still pretty cool.
If you have a google account, check out this link. It adds the ArcGIS Server - Message in a Bottle applet to your google maps. Click the map and watch the "bottle" travel the path of the streamlines. Do it a couple times around the area of the oil spill and get a rough idea of the possible trajectories. Yes there are significant differences between an oil slick on top of the water and a glass bottle, but I have yet to find anywhere else public-ish facing where you can dynamically plot stream line points for free. Map experts/enthusiast?
Let the number of the post be defined by a monotonically increasing function f, such that the initial value of f is zero.
Corollary 1.1:
/b/tards approximated inside
t[10,60] seconds, with T(t) approaching 0 as t approaches infinity.
Let the rate of posting trolls be defined by the the exponentially decaying 4th degree wave function of T(t), with a maximum frequency of
While I am for net-neutrality, and we do need some form of regulation on the internet to keep the providers fair and clean, do not, and I repeat, do not assume that the government is pushing net neutrality for the purpose of helping you. There have been many times in the United States where our government will push something like Social Security, saying "This is to help the widows with children", which, yes, is a noble cause that many can't argue with. But look at it now, it is a system used to hook the societal leeches and give paychecks to fat-asses who are too lazy to get up and work.
My point it, watch the other hand. History shows that while on the surface what Uncle Sugar is doing may seem beneficial to average Joe, there sure as hell are things going on behind the scenes that I guarantee will hurt you personally in the long run.
Let me restate, we do need some regulation regarding the neutrality of the internet, but there are ulterior motives most likely at hand. In 10 years, do you think it is that out of the question that your tax money will be used to subsidize lower-class internet connections? What do you think all those extra FCC related charges are on your cell bill.
Also, you do not have a god given right to the internet. But you do have a say in it if you contribute. Your taxes subsidize infrastructure grants that go to these companies, and when these companies are limiting freedom of speech through their filtering agendas, then yes, there is an argument. But watch the other hand.
I heard you like mudkips.
Only when they are being pulverized by the impact of an IntelSat. More and more /b/tards here everyday it seems...
In other news, on May 23, experts are predicting the possibility of a 10 point jump in the average US citizen's IQ.
And hundreds of companies make much more off the fruits of OSS 'labor'.
Seeing as Al Gore invented the internet and all, I presume this 'Inconvenient Truth' could be fixed by a consortium of Ted Stevens, Gore, and some good tube management.
Apparently the big bang has some evidence to back up its sexual connotations. We got blasted with pansperm!
Oh really? Go to this website and check out the links. The majority are all from reputable sources. You will notice that the links from many of them are broken. Intentionally. For fear of public backlash. They knew. They all knew it was coming, they may not have known about the fine-grained details, but many of them knew not to fly, not to be in New York, and other poignant details about the oncoming attack.