The radius of the earth is actually closer to 2,100,000 (2,092,000, with 4 significant digits). Despite using a lower radius, however, you somehow managed to also get a lower number of IPs per square foot.
(2,092,000^2*4*PI)=6.187*10^13 (again, significant digits are your friend)
2^128=3.402*10^38
(3.402*10^38)/(6.187*10^13) = (3.402*10^25)/6.187 = 5.499*10^24
Your answer was approximately 6*10^22, so off by a factor of 100.
Still, anyway you slice it, that's a fuckload of IPs. Which is good, because we certainly don't want to run into the "nobody could possibly need more than 512k of ram" problem. This way, utilizing all those IPs would be practically a physical impossibility, at least as long as we're contained within this solar system.
Of course, this doesn't mean the "thousands of IPs per square foot" people are WRONG. After all, 5.499*10^24 is 5,499,000,000,000,000,000,000 thousand IP addresses per square foot. That's many many many thousands:)
When most of the money spent on a satillite is spent simply on getting it into orbit, the mentality becomes understandable. Depending on how much it as sold for (presumably not much, given that bankrupcy sales are generally pretty cheap), the new firm very well may be able to make money, as it doesn't have the startup cost of launching scores of satallites.
Aren't there going to be a lot of other forces working to move the pyramids out of alignment? If I remember correctly, continental drift is about an inch per year. That would be 126 yards. Plus, the ground could have sunk irregularly, or there could have been errosion. Besides which, the pyramids used to be coated with sandstone, which has since weathered away, and I'm not sure if anyone knows how thick it was. I'm not saying that this theory couldn't be right, but saying that the movement of the stars is the only thing that we need to know to figure out what the pyramids were aligned to seems rather silly. A lot can happen in 4500 years.
It's now dual-licensed. They need to keep the Mozilla license around in order to allow closed source plugins, but you can also use it under the GPL. See Mozilla's faq for details. And, contrary to your claim, it did not get "up to snuff" "within DAYS." The Mozilla license is actually pretty good, IMHO, but now you've got no basis for complaint.
Those laws were not created by OSHA. Companies will take steps on their own to protect themselves from lawsuits, they don't need OSHA telling them how to do it. Anyone else remember last year when OSHA declared that injuries suffered by telecommuters while working at home were the company's responability? Luckily there was enough public outcry that they withdrew the measure (claiming "that's not what we meant"). I really, really, really distrust organizations that are empowered to issue declarations with the strength of laws without having to run for re-election. I think not having an anti-delegation clause in the Constitution was a major oversight by the founding fathers.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to sort the messages rather than deleting them? That way, if you're pretty sure it's not going to be porn, you can still go ahead and open the message. IANAL, but I would think that if someone opens a message in the "this is probably porn" folder, they can't sue for harassment if it is, indeed, porn.
Sure, you're using your genes, but not conciously. If you can recite for me your full code, as well as breaking it down into chunks, each defining a single trait (no need to know what the trait is, just as long as you know it's there), then you've got prior art. I agree that it's silly, I think IP has serious problems from the get-go, but I'm not sure that gene patenting is any more ridiculous than any other type.
If Ug had patented the color of the daytime sky 30K years ago, would the rest of us have to pay a fee to view it?
Nope, his patent would have expired 299,983 years ago:) Patents only last 17 years, so this "squatting" strategy seems a little silly. By the time you can actually bring a product to the market based on it, you've probably only got another 5-8 years before everyone else gets to use the results of your research.
I don't know what kinds of drives you've been using, but my CD-Rs work on all of my CD players (actually, I haven't tried the really old 80's player, but certainly they work on my first-generation disc-man), whereas I have yet to find a CD player that will play RW.
Why not have backup power? Would it really be so hard? If we assume they can afford touch screens, as many people have suggested, I think they can afford enough backup power to shutdown the computers safely, and then they can simply send the rest of the voters on to the nearest functional polling center. Hell, for that matter, why not get donations of old B&W display laptops? Those babies could run often in excess of 5 hours on a fully charged battery, most likely enough to get them through until the power is brought back up. We don't need gobs of computing power here, all we need is a simple machine to record votes, and print some sort of paper backup copy.
I remember reading an article about how Fosters launched a huge ad campaign before the olympics in an effort to get enough Australians drinking Fosters that tourists wouldn't notice the lack of Fosters. I take it the campaign didn't go anywhere though?
I can honestly say there's not enough of a sensation difference to matter
And I, also being male, also having experienced with and without condoms, can honestly say that there is enough of a sensation difference to matter. Sure, if it's a condom or nothing, I choose the condom, but anything that makes the condom unnecessary is great in my book. I won't even use latex condoms, I buy the polyurethane (if that's how you spell it) ones, because they're thinner. People have different tastes, just because you don't feel a difference doesn't mean others won't.
Seriously, advances that make games more realistic always add to the experience. Nothing can substitute for good game design, of course, but take two equally well designed games, and the one with better graphics is going to be more fun. Why bother moving beyond black and white games? Or wire-frame? Because higher detail allows subtlties to be represented that would be impossible using older technologies. Anyone who's ever tried to puzzle out exactly what the arm flailing in FFVII is supposed to be expressing knows what I'm talking about.
I don't want to bother digging up the actual square mileage (or square kilometerage:), but the UK is a LOT smaller than the US. Yeah, the fact that we were early adopters means that we've got a lot of old technology lying around, but the coverage area we have to deal with is a lot smaller too. It would be like expecting all of Australia to have nationwide digital coverage. Some areas just aren't populous enough to justify upgrading the network (note what the man said: 300 cities, and major interstates. About 95% of the US population probably lives in those cities). So, the combination of being early adopters and having a very large area to cover explains the less advanced infrastructure.
But the point is, they DO have first amendment rights. So saying that their first amendment rights were violated is not a ludicrous statement. Perhaps the judge was referring to freedom of the press.
Precisely my point. As of right now, only blacks (who voted 90% for Gore) vote as a block. But, if canidates could safely ignore states with higher levels of diversity, and appeal instead to the largest interest groups, whether broken down by race, age, profession, or who knows what, they'll find the biggest block of people with common concerns and target those people to the exclusion of everyone else. For the exit polls on how people voted, based on gender, race, and so forth, see CNN
If corporations lacked rights, imagine what would happen to freedom of the press. Newspapers would only be free to publish whatever they wanted so long as they were published by individuals instead of by corporations. The first amenndment most definately applies to corporations.
Most (I would say all, but I'm not entirely certain of that) have roman alphabet representations, usually without using accents, umlauts, or what have you. So, they can represent their languages in urls, just a less commonly used form. German, Spanish, French, etc, often have words that, stripped of special characters, are written identically. On top of this, it's relatively easy to write special roman-alphabet characters on a QWERTY keypad (I managed to figure it out through trial and error), but quite difficult to type asian characters, so asian character urls will serve to make the Internet more regional.
I have occasion to buy an international airline ticket this year, and I refuse to use priceline because they have Will Shitner doing their ads. Give me Nemoy, Stewart, Dorn, Spiner, McFadden, anyone but shitner. Blow me priceline.
Man, you have got some real problems, don't you? Did Shatner beat you as a child or something? I mean, I'm not crazy about Troi, but it's not like I carry some kind of grudge. And you manually typed in a.sig as an anonymous coward? That's just weird.
Actually, scratch the electoral college, and no non-whites count. Blacks are like 10% of the nation, and hispanics more like 5. But, to win California, you MUST have a good black or hispanic vote. To win the nation, all you need are whites. So, the parties can just forget about minorities, and focus solely on the largest groups. So your suggestion that CA, NY, FL, PA, and TX would be the important ones is actually backwards. CA, in particular, would be one of the least focused on states.
Don't get your hopes up. Even if that happens (unlikely, looks like Bush will take Oregon), Gore will probably conceed, because it would be unlikely he would succeed, and it would greatly damage his public image. Assuming he fails to get the two votes, he'll look like a sore, bitter loser, and people won't want to hear from him again. If he conceeds gracefully, he can then go do whatever he damn well wants, and he will be deeply respected by Americans for being a man who fought a good campaign, but accepted it when he lost. That's why the canidates always give their concession speeches before all the votes are in. They could stand there waiting until every last vote has been counted (as they will have to this time:), but it would look bad.
The only reason he wasn't on the ballot in Arizona was because of internal party problems. The Arizona Libertarian party split, and the national party made the mistake of supporting the wrong faction, so the group that finally got legal recognition chose to put their own Libertarian canidate on the ballot. I fully expect that things will be back to normal by the next election.
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(2,092,000^2*4*PI)=6.187*10^13 (again, significant digits are your friend)
2^128=3.402*10^38
(3.402*10^38)/(6.187*10^13) = (3.402*10^25)/6.187 = 5.499*10^24
Your answer was approximately 6*10^22, so off by a factor of 100.
Still, anyway you slice it, that's a fuckload of IPs. Which is good, because we certainly don't want to run into the "nobody could possibly need more than 512k of ram" problem. This way, utilizing all those IPs would be practically a physical impossibility, at least as long as we're contained within this solar system.
Of course, this doesn't mean the "thousands of IPs per square foot" people are WRONG. After all, 5.499*10^24 is 5,499,000,000,000,000,000,000 thousand IP addresses per square foot. That's many many many thousands :)
Sorry, what I meant was, "I have yet to find a cd player that I already own that can use CD-RW" :) I assumed that they existed.
Oh well, back to FFVIII for me.
Sure, you're using your genes, but not conciously. If you can recite for me your full code, as well as breaking it down into chunks, each defining a single trait (no need to know what the trait is, just as long as you know it's there), then you've got prior art. I agree that it's silly, I think IP has serious problems from the get-go, but I'm not sure that gene patenting is any more ridiculous than any other type.
Nope, his patent would have expired 299,983 years ago :) Patents only last 17 years, so this "squatting" strategy seems a little silly. By the time you can actually bring a product to the market based on it, you've probably only got another 5-8 years before everyone else gets to use the results of your research.
And I, also being male, also having experienced with and without condoms, can honestly say that there is enough of a sensation difference to matter. Sure, if it's a condom or nothing, I choose the condom, but anything that makes the condom unnecessary is great in my book. I won't even use latex condoms, I buy the polyurethane (if that's how you spell it) ones, because they're thinner. People have different tastes, just because you don't feel a difference doesn't mean others won't.
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I have occasion to buy an international airline ticket this year, and I refuse to use priceline because they have Will Shitner doing their ads. Give me Nemoy, Stewart, Dorn, Spiner, McFadden, anyone but shitner. Blow me priceline.
Man, you have got some real problems, don't you? Did Shatner beat you as a child or something? I mean, I'm not crazy about Troi, but it's not like I carry some kind of grudge. And you manually typed in a .sig as an anonymous coward? That's just weird.
The only reason he wasn't on the ballot in Arizona was because of internal party problems. The Arizona Libertarian party split, and the national party made the mistake of supporting the wrong faction, so the group that finally got legal recognition chose to put their own Libertarian canidate on the ballot. I fully expect that things will be back to normal by the next election.