Highly flammable... somewhat of an understatement.
In the environment inside the capsule you could burn aluminum like wood, cloth goes up like it's soaked in gasoline, plastics will burn like they're made of wax.
The materials inside the capsule weren't highly flammable so much as the environment itself was.
You think the grand plan to get public buy in on government run single payer was to completely botch the roll out of government directed public healthcare? I'm not sure I follow the logic there.
If you have an otherwise decent connection you should be able to play 1080p just fine. If you can't, your ISP is probably sending the traffic to one of the massively overloaded mirrors they run. You can block them easily by following the directions here for Linix or here for Windows. Or you can apply the same rules at your router to take care of the issue for your whole network.
Yes this. There is mounting evidence that attraction to children has it's roots in malformation and/or damage to the human brain. For instance, if someone experiences a dramatic head injury as a child they are much more likely to be attracted to children in that age range later in life. Looking at pedophilia in a merely legal light does not expose even half of the full picture.
Very nice, insightful post, but not really what the parent posts were getting at. The original post that started the chain was something like "why don't they make the interior of the drive a vacuum rather than helium filled?" The answer was that the heads and the platters maintain proper distance using aerodynamic affects which wouldn't work if the drive were emptied of all air.
Mind share is more important than market share, and Apple still dominates there. There's still a ton of places that will develop an app for iOS and only tack on Android support a year later. I'm not talking about games and tools, I'm talking about banks, supermarkets, corporate environments.
I doubt he's running an old version at this point. Between the sophistication and how thoroughly his setup seems to be owned I find it highly unlikely that at least one of the machines hasn't phoned home for updates. After that it would spread amongst the infected machines through USB drives, LAN, or even the acoustic networking.
In this case though, the fake blood is manufactured from actual blood. I think you'll find a good many Jehovah's Witnesses will decline this substitute. Now, if you get into the artificial bloods based on strictly man made materials you won't have any issues.
I think "13.2 percent of patients receiving PolyHeme died versus 9.6 percent among the control group" might have something to do with why we forgot about it. The non-matching and non-refrigeration aspects make it interesting for combat and less advanced regions though.
Blu-ray players pay $10 in licensing fees, by making you activate it they can defer that cost and only pay it for those who are actually going to use it.
Well, the DVD/Blu-ray activation could theoretically save them couple bucks per console if they don't have to pay licensing for those technologies on consoles that never get activated.
Don't forget the trick of packaging 2 copies of the music into one disc case, so that a single album sale counted as two. The "top seller" metrics have always been gamed one way or another. If anything is surprising about this research, it's that no one else was already gaming the system this way; if someone were I doubt he would have achieved the number one spot so easily.
You can have your flat tax when you have a guaranteed minimum income for every man, woman, and child in the country. Until then, all you're doing is massively, massively increasing the burden on the poor. There are basic requirements to live, levying a 25% sales tax (more realistic would be 40% or more to maintain current funding levels) on poor people who already don't meet those requirements is just incredibly stupid.
I apparently don't pay as much attention to specific writers as you do, maybe other people don't either? For what it's worth, from the article:
Over the past couple of years, though, as Microsoft improved its once-neglected Hotmail service, I moved back. First to an @live.com address, then to an @outlook.com address, and finally to a custom domain that's attached to the Outlook.com servers. (See this post for instructions on how to add your own custom domain to Outlook.com for free.)
Your prediction bearing out so perfectly actually gave me a bit of a chuckle (assuming it was a prediction of course).
I don't know why this is modded funny. The vast majority of people have something they would rather not have the general world know about. Whether it's a drug charge from 20 years ago, or a mistress on the side, or shady campaign contributions, or their favorite porn sites. If someone really lives such a squeaky clean life that there's nothing to dangle over their head (keeping in mind it doesn't take much to make someone's life miserable) I have no doubt they have the capability to create something out of thin air. It's not funny, it's terrifying.
DARPA's job is to read way too much Sci-Fi, and to fund it if it has even an off chance success. Their program success rate is something like 15%, and that includes much, much less ambitious projects than things like this. They pick high risk, high reward programs and give them just enough money to get a prototype going.
If someone is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison and later found to be innocent you can release them. The punishment can, to some extent, be alleviated. If someone is found guilty and sentenced to death and later found innocent... well too bad, sucks to be you.
Adblock takes care of them. Without adblock, I've never had to sit through more than the first 5 seconds of an add, then click "skip". Eh, I guess it just doesn't bother me much.
If the cost of glasses is your concern look into the LG models that use polarizing glasses rather than active shutter. The glasses are dirt cheap, you can even bring them home from the theater if you see a 3D movie there. My TV has it... and it hasn't been used because I'm one of the ones who just doesn't see 3D well and my wife couldn't care less.
1. The bill requires you to specify which products are infringing and which claims they are infringing upon. That's actually higher resolution than what you are asking for because it is down to the specific claim in the patent, rather than the patent as a whole.
2. This is already the case, that's what those licensing agreements are for. Unless you're saying the license the producer has doesn't allow them to sell... which would just be silly. What we see now are cases where the producer doesn't have a license because the patent is, quite frankly, stupid. I agree with you that consumers shouldn't be valid targets, but what you're asking for specifically already exists.
4. This was part of the America Invents Act and went into effect last September
The ability to see individual pixels is not the limit of perceptible improvement though. Even on 'retina' displays there is visible aliasing on diagonal lines. Think about it like this, a 12nm chip fab produces individual elements at 12nm, but places them with much, much better than 12nm accuracy.
To be fair, the battery technology for a true replacement electric vehicle is just getting there now. And by that I mean one that, with the necessary changes to infrastructure, you can take on a road trip with the same basic level of hassle as a gas powered car. The fact is, the model S has a huge battery in terms of weight and size, using the most effective battery technology available in large scale today, and still barely gets 200+ miles on a charge. Yes, you could drop the performance numbers a bit and improve that, but not by much. And the batteries cost as much as a new Honda.
There are practical reasons why this round of electric cars looks to be doing better than previous attempts. They are able to get decent range, in a standard form factor, and with decent performance and it's largely because today's batteries hold several times the energy that batteries from 20 years ago did.
Just keep in mind that an 'observer' does not mean a conscious entity. An observer, in the quantum mechanical sense, is more accurately an "interactor", as in anything that interacts with it. Which, when put into those terms, their thought process in this paper is much clearer: without interaction there is no way to determine if time has passed, if there's no way to tell if time is passing... it may as well not be.
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Highly flammable... somewhat of an understatement.
In the environment inside the capsule you could burn aluminum like wood, cloth goes up like it's soaked in gasoline, plastics will burn like they're made of wax.
The materials inside the capsule weren't highly flammable so much as the environment itself was.
You think the grand plan to get public buy in on government run single payer was to completely botch the roll out of government directed public healthcare? I'm not sure I follow the logic there.
Never used Swype or one of it's copycats?
If you have an otherwise decent connection you should be able to play 1080p just fine. If you can't, your ISP is probably sending the traffic to one of the massively overloaded mirrors they run. You can block them easily by following the directions here for Linix or here for Windows. Or you can apply the same rules at your router to take care of the issue for your whole network.
Yes this. There is mounting evidence that attraction to children has it's roots in malformation and/or damage to the human brain. For instance, if someone experiences a dramatic head injury as a child they are much more likely to be attracted to children in that age range later in life. Looking at pedophilia in a merely legal light does not expose even half of the full picture.
Very nice, insightful post, but not really what the parent posts were getting at. The original post that started the chain was something like "why don't they make the interior of the drive a vacuum rather than helium filled?" The answer was that the heads and the platters maintain proper distance using aerodynamic affects which wouldn't work if the drive were emptied of all air.
Mind share is more important than market share, and Apple still dominates there. There's still a ton of places that will develop an app for iOS and only tack on Android support a year later. I'm not talking about games and tools, I'm talking about banks, supermarkets, corporate environments.
I doubt he's running an old version at this point. Between the sophistication and how thoroughly his setup seems to be owned I find it highly unlikely that at least one of the machines hasn't phoned home for updates. After that it would spread amongst the infected machines through USB drives, LAN, or even the acoustic networking.
In this case though, the fake blood is manufactured from actual blood. I think you'll find a good many Jehovah's Witnesses will decline this substitute. Now, if you get into the artificial bloods based on strictly man made materials you won't have any issues.
I think "13.2 percent of patients receiving PolyHeme died versus 9.6 percent among the control group" might have something to do with why we forgot about it. The non-matching and non-refrigeration aspects make it interesting for combat and less advanced regions though.
Blu-ray players pay $10 in licensing fees, by making you activate it they can defer that cost and only pay it for those who are actually going to use it.
Well, the DVD/Blu-ray activation could theoretically save them couple bucks per console if they don't have to pay licensing for those technologies on consoles that never get activated.
Don't forget the trick of packaging 2 copies of the music into one disc case, so that a single album sale counted as two. The "top seller" metrics have always been gamed one way or another. If anything is surprising about this research, it's that no one else was already gaming the system this way; if someone were I doubt he would have achieved the number one spot so easily.
You can have your flat tax when you have a guaranteed minimum income for every man, woman, and child in the country. Until then, all you're doing is massively, massively increasing the burden on the poor. There are basic requirements to live, levying a 25% sales tax (more realistic would be 40% or more to maintain current funding levels) on poor people who already don't meet those requirements is just incredibly stupid.
I apparently don't pay as much attention to specific writers as you do, maybe other people don't either? For what it's worth, from the article:
Over the past couple of years, though, as Microsoft improved its once-neglected Hotmail service, I moved back. First to an @live.com address, then to an @outlook.com address, and finally to a custom domain that's attached to the Outlook.com servers. (See this post for instructions on how to add your own custom domain to Outlook.com for free.)
Your prediction bearing out so perfectly actually gave me a bit of a chuckle (assuming it was a prediction of course).
I don't know why this is modded funny. The vast majority of people have something they would rather not have the general world know about. Whether it's a drug charge from 20 years ago, or a mistress on the side, or shady campaign contributions, or their favorite porn sites. If someone really lives such a squeaky clean life that there's nothing to dangle over their head (keeping in mind it doesn't take much to make someone's life miserable) I have no doubt they have the capability to create something out of thin air. It's not funny, it's terrifying.
DARPA's job is to read way too much Sci-Fi, and to fund it if it has even an off chance success. Their program success rate is something like 15%, and that includes much, much less ambitious projects than things like this. They pick high risk, high reward programs and give them just enough money to get a prototype going.
If someone is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison and later found to be innocent you can release them. The punishment can, to some extent, be alleviated. If someone is found guilty and sentenced to death and later found innocent... well too bad, sucks to be you.
No one we put to death now would be released tomorrow if the death penalty were abolished.
Adblock takes care of them. Without adblock, I've never had to sit through more than the first 5 seconds of an add, then click "skip". Eh, I guess it just doesn't bother me much.
If the cost of glasses is your concern look into the LG models that use polarizing glasses rather than active shutter. The glasses are dirt cheap, you can even bring them home from the theater if you see a 3D movie there. My TV has it... and it hasn't been used because I'm one of the ones who just doesn't see 3D well and my wife couldn't care less.
1. The bill requires you to specify which products are infringing and which claims they are infringing upon. That's actually higher resolution than what you are asking for because it is down to the specific claim in the patent, rather than the patent as a whole.
2. This is already the case, that's what those licensing agreements are for. Unless you're saying the license the producer has doesn't allow them to sell... which would just be silly. What we see now are cases where the producer doesn't have a license because the patent is, quite frankly, stupid. I agree with you that consumers shouldn't be valid targets, but what you're asking for specifically already exists.
4. This was part of the America Invents Act and went into effect last September
The ability to see individual pixels is not the limit of perceptible improvement though. Even on 'retina' displays there is visible aliasing on diagonal lines. Think about it like this, a 12nm chip fab produces individual elements at 12nm, but places them with much, much better than 12nm accuracy.
To be fair, the battery technology for a true replacement electric vehicle is just getting there now. And by that I mean one that, with the necessary changes to infrastructure, you can take on a road trip with the same basic level of hassle as a gas powered car. The fact is, the model S has a huge battery in terms of weight and size, using the most effective battery technology available in large scale today, and still barely gets 200+ miles on a charge. Yes, you could drop the performance numbers a bit and improve that, but not by much. And the batteries cost as much as a new Honda.
There are practical reasons why this round of electric cars looks to be doing better than previous attempts. They are able to get decent range, in a standard form factor, and with decent performance and it's largely because today's batteries hold several times the energy that batteries from 20 years ago did.
Just keep in mind that an 'observer' does not mean a conscious entity. An observer, in the quantum mechanical sense, is more accurately an "interactor", as in anything that interacts with it. Which, when put into those terms, their thought process in this paper is much clearer: without interaction there is no way to determine if time has passed, if there's no way to tell if time is passing... it may as well not be.