When I met Richard Branson he was living on a houseboat on the Thames. Unlike many of the people who have made a lot of money, he didn't start off rich. He seems to have been successful because he is good at delegation, focusses on the bottom line, and looks after his managers. If he wants to sell space tourism, some very clever people will have worked out how it will get to the bottom line.
One rather drastic option would be to put lots of warning notices at the entrance followed by a radioactive source that will initially kill anybody in a few hours. The learning curve should be fairly short.
It would be good enough to have a large drawing of the full periodic table, with even the lanthanide gaps filled in instead of being aliased. No need even for atom drawings. It is the structure of the periodic table that tells you quite unambiguously what everything is. This would work for any civilisation that has reached enough chemistry to know what radioactive means.
Label the main radionucleides clearly, then have a simple drawing of the site marked with the symbols.
Our own pre-chemical societies often had problems just from natural hazards. There is a Roman lead mine up on the Mendips near where I live where the water is, to say the least, not potable. In the Harz mountains people suffered from the effects of nickel salts in the water, which they attributed to the work of the devil (which is why nickel is called nickel...). If civilisation collapses or if we die out and are replaced, many more creatures will die of natural hazards than will be killed by our repositories.
Paul's letters are full of whiny requests for more money and demands that people take him seriously. I have a feeling that his actual position in the early church was that of "Annoying git who wasn't one of the founders but acts as if he was", but as his writings survived, he had the last laugh. It's often the way.
The Roman Catholic Church (as distinct from the early Church) came into being because of the process of incorporation by which the Roman Empire "adopted" foreign religions when it seemed expedient. In essence, the old Pagan system of the Flamen Dialis and the Vestals and all the rest of it re-emerged as Imperial Christianity, with the Vestals as nuns and the Flamen Dialis as the Pope. Celibacy was a takeover of the priesthood of Cybele. In many places the process was far from complete, as anyone who has ever visited a few Dark Ages sites knows. Although it is a very old book now, it is all darkly alluded to in The Golden Bough, a 19th century work of religious anthropology by James Frazer.
Anyone who remembers Vatican II will remember it as the high water of the Church facing up to its past and trying to identify a role for the future. Unfortunately the *homo erectus wing of the Vatican got control again.
I do not normally respond to ACs, but on this occasion I will break my rule. Go away and learn some sociology of religion. There isn't exactly a shortage of publications on the subject. The Catholic Church itself, even, has done research into the area. I haven't got time to enlighten you, but until you get out of the basement and see what actually happens in the real world, you won't begin to appreciate why writing "Wrong." is not an argument.
Where to start? The Catholic Church is not a public company with a board of directors and a CEO, though the management tries to treat it like one. It is technically the "ekklesia", the community of believers who were called out by Jesus to bear witness to his teachings. If (as is actually the case) the majority of individual Catholics ignore the Pope on a range of issues, that just shows that the leadership is out of touch; seriously, Ratzinger isn't in a position to fire all the people who disagree with him, though it would be funny if he tried.
The greatest theologian of the Catholic Church, Hans Kung, is barred from teaching doctrine by the same Ratzinger. In effect, Catholic thought has been hijacked by a relatively small clique of backward authority figures. You could say the same thing about the British Conservative Party and the Church of England. Comment on the USA would be superfluous, as HuffPost does a rather thorough job. Eventually, Popes die.
The point is that Melinda Gates is more typical of Catholics than is the Pope, and Hans Kung articulates the beliefs of educated Catholics far better than Ratzinger's entire hierarchy. It is the Pope that needs to go into unearned retirement.
And, for information, I'm a kind of atheist. I just think that clear thinking about what goes on in religions is much better than simple name calling.
I assume you are referring to the Ancient Greek high-tech industry, which gave us the trireme, early astronomy and the Antikythera Mechanism. But you are wrong. High tech occurs in relatively small clusters and tends to jump from cluster to cluster as people move around.
At least that's my assumption. Perhaps you are referring to some other activity. But that would be unlikely, since only trolls do that on Slashdot.
High temperature pyrolysis is your friend here. The waste is indeed heated until all the plastic has volatilised, but halogens are removed, dust is collected, and carbon dioxide and water comes out of the pipe. Paint jigs are usually cleaned this way. It will remove the insulation from copper wires and the filler from around magnesium alloy or aluminum frames.
As for car batteries, I believe they are about 95% recyclable. Although sulfuric acid is nasty stuff, it is easy to pour off and treat. In fact, most liquid handling is very easy with well established procedures. Years ago the company I worked for acquired a plating plant (tanks of alkali, nickel and chrome salts, cyanides, concentrated sulfuric acid, you name it). Our insurers promptly cancelled our insurance. The local safety executive recommended us to a specialist insurer, who told us that, though many insurance companies were frightened of plating plants, they actually have an excellent safety record and rarely result in insurance claims. It is a matter of sticking to well-established procedures. There is no reason at all why recycling plants should not be the same.
Disclaimer: I don't live there (and my relatives who did have moved).
San Francisco does today what the more advanced parts of the developed world will do tomorrow. It is enormously influential. Its geography is a roll call of large parts of the US computer industry. The first development system I ever used came from Marin County, the second operating system from a place called Berkeley, and much of what has followed has come from Cupertino or Palo Alto. And a slap from the City Council for the largest corporation in the area will play well with the residents.
You keep using US terminology. This is England and we have the law of England and Wales. We don't have State law. Common law is NOT the practical implementation of legislative law: we have Statute Law and this overrides Common Law where it is applicable. The judge is not setting any kind of precedent because he is applying the Common Law on passing off, and he has made no extension to it; he has just said "For these two reasons (the manufacturer is identified and the design is not as obsessively minimalistic) this is not an attempt at passing off".
Most "Passing off" is subjective; I am reminded of the Chrysler that has been made to look like a Bentley. When asked if they would sue Chrysler for passing off, the Bentley spokesman is said to have replied "Nobody who might actually buy one of our cars would be fooled for an instant." This is a very similar example.
This is English law. We don't have "trade dress", we have "passing off". Apple would basically have to show that either Samsung were misrepresenting their tablet as being either an Apple tablet, or their product was designed to be so similar that the buying public would be confused.
Apple is a widely recognised trade mark, so if it says "Samsung" on the back the chance of confusion is minimal.
It's a multinational corporation that happens to have its headquarters in one of the States of the USA which has a pretty good record on progressive values. Poland has a much smaller population than California. Google is not responsible for what happens in Washington.
Poles come to the UK to work and earn money, go back to Poland...and then come back to the UK because now Poland is a backward country for them. The Polish Government needs to start thinking like a modern, liberal Western democracy because it is in the interests, not only of the younger generation, but of the old and backward who will benefit if the economy improves. Sometimes you just have to kick people around the head (metaphorically) for their own good.
Much as I like my Pre 3 (yes, I know I'm strange), the simple fact is that webOS isn't running on a phone line (Samsung S3 and Galaxy Nexus) that could well overtake the iPhone in world wide sales if Samsung can ramp up production enough, so even if it infringed Apple wouldn't care.
This dispute is entirely about what will happen to the Apple share price if Samsung's higher end phones overtake Apple's sales. US shareholders don't seem to care about the world market, only the US one. Therefore, Apple executive bonuses depend largely on keeping Samsung out of the US.
This may be partial truth and an oversimplification, but I think there is merit in the argument. Currently HTC is struggling, so is Motorola, but Samsung is a huge threat not to Apple (the market is expanding) but to its share price.
The photon is the carrier of the EM field, and the electron has mass while the photon doesn't. The Higgs doesn't "implement mass"; it is what we get if we manage to create a collision sufficiently energetic that a carrier of the Higgs field pops detectably into and out of existence, just as the photon pops into and out of existence if we accelerate a charge sufficiently to create a local distortion of the EM field.
The top quark has a mass of about 173GeV, which comfortably beats the 125 of the particle detected at CERN.
Working ballpoint pens would get used, so they do not get an opportunity to cluster together and reproduce. All working ballpoint pens are, in fact, the sterile offspring of all the non-working ones, just as mules are the sterile working offspring of horses and donkeys...hay fever acting up, please forgive this OT post.
There you go with the Jobs mentality. Most of us would have expected a 7 inch screen to offer 49% of the benefits of a 10 inch screen, because it has only 49% of the area.
But then, the Playbook I can be bothered to carry around with me everywhere has a definite advantage over the iPad or the Transformer that is really just too big for convenience, either for holding or carrying, given my Euro-weenie size and small hands.
Personally, I have a suspicion that I am going to have helpless bank account leak at the sight of the Galaxy Note 2, but in any case, Jobs was wrong.
I just observed that referring to Benedict XVI* as "Pope Ratzo" causes the more papist Catholics to go somewhat ape. When I was a kid, there was a kind of jam which had a caricature of a black person on it, called a "golliwog". If you chose the nick "golliwog" because you liked the jam when you were 12, it would still be insensitive in 2012. I can't help your choices.
*Translates as "good speech 16th". If you happen to be Jewish or Muslim, YMMV.
My wife has been financial adviser to several charities and has seen at first hand how the failure to run them like a business wastes the money donated. If people give money to a charity and then find it is being used to give bonuses to executives, pursue goals incompatible with the objects of the charity, or engage in expensive window-dressing, they are rightly upset. A charity should be run like a business to the extent that the overheads should be minimised versus the spend on the object. You are, if I may say so, failing to consider the difference in interests between the donors and the people who actually spend the money.
I thought that it was established that GM crops merely lock farmers into a dependency cycle where they have to pay Monsanto every year, while the food revolution was created by, mostly, Government and academic researchers. As for vaccines, it has been argued by academics in loony left-wing rags like Scientific American that Big Pharma doesn't want them to succeed because it means that the future revenue is nonexistent. The smallpox vaccine, the rabies vaccine and the poliomyelitis vaccine were all developed by small teams.
Meanwhile Big Pharma has let farmers stuff farm animals with antibiotics until resistant bacteria (including old killers like tuberculosis) are a major health problem, while failing to develop new antibiotics. I, like many older people, depend on a couple of drugs to remain healthy and reasonably comfortable, but I believe that the drug industry needs supervision and regulation, just like the banks.
PopeRatzo...a red rag to the remaining Catholics who actually take the Pope seriously. I know one of them and all I can say is, don't mention the Hitlerjugend, he goes ape. (For the record, my personal view is that the Catholic Church is a great institution which has been repeatedly let down by its management. In which it joins a number of banks, and many countries. As someone who believes that Hans Kung is a truly great theologian, I have nothing but contempt for Ratzinger. But giving yourself the nick of "PopeRatzo" is provocative, just as that Irish blogger who called himself Guido Fawkes while anonymously attacking the British government was being provocative. (I mention him just to make the point that Catholics can be tasteless too.. nihil humani a me alienum puto).
You missed the bit where they hived off the printers and sold the PC division. catmistake doesn't seem to know about that or (s)he would know they also had troubles in the 2000s. Talking once to a senior manager of Lexmark, he recalled how before the split it was almost impossible to get a new model out because just about everybody with a c-level post anywhere in IBM had to sign off on it. The same with PCs, which could be blocked by the minicomputer division who did not want competition. In the end, IBM realised that making PCs did not really make any actual money and involved them with Microsoft in ways they preferred not to be.
Now IBM is basically back to being the old IBM - a company that makes unstoppable mainframes and markets a range of software and consultancy services around them.
Basically you are saying that too much concentration of resources and money has found its way to Redmond, which has now moved from a growth mindset to a protective mindset so that it can no longer use the talents of creative people.
You are right: it needs to fail or be broken up. As does HP. In any pyramid management system, the layer above is frantically trying to keep down the layer below. Consultants develop clever schemes that are supposed to prevent this, but the vested interests are such that they get circumvented. The only answer is to remove the top layers of the pyramid, where the ossification is heaviest, and set the layers below adrift to sink or swim.
Of course this doesn't suit the stock market, the banks or the institutional investors, but I would have thought by now we would have realised that what is good for them is bad for the 99%. Germany's strength is that it has many, many middle sized companies run by people who are experts in their business. The USA used to have that.
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When I met Richard Branson he was living on a houseboat on the Thames. Unlike many of the people who have made a lot of money, he didn't start off rich. He seems to have been successful because he is good at delegation, focusses on the bottom line, and looks after his managers. If he wants to sell space tourism, some very clever people will have worked out how it will get to the bottom line.
One rather drastic option would be to put lots of warning notices at the entrance followed by a radioactive source that will initially kill anybody in a few hours. The learning curve should be fairly short.
Label the main radionucleides clearly, then have a simple drawing of the site marked with the symbols.
Our own pre-chemical societies often had problems just from natural hazards. There is a Roman lead mine up on the Mendips near where I live where the water is, to say the least, not potable. In the Harz mountains people suffered from the effects of nickel salts in the water, which they attributed to the work of the devil (which is why nickel is called nickel...). If civilisation collapses or if we die out and are replaced, many more creatures will die of natural hazards than will be killed by our repositories.
The Roman Catholic Church (as distinct from the early Church) came into being because of the process of incorporation by which the Roman Empire "adopted" foreign religions when it seemed expedient. In essence, the old Pagan system of the Flamen Dialis and the Vestals and all the rest of it re-emerged as Imperial Christianity, with the Vestals as nuns and the Flamen Dialis as the Pope. Celibacy was a takeover of the priesthood of Cybele. In many places the process was far from complete, as anyone who has ever visited a few Dark Ages sites knows. Although it is a very old book now, it is all darkly alluded to in The Golden Bough, a 19th century work of religious anthropology by James Frazer.
Anyone who remembers Vatican II will remember it as the high water of the Church facing up to its past and trying to identify a role for the future. Unfortunately the *homo erectus wing of the Vatican got control again.
I do not normally respond to ACs, but on this occasion I will break my rule. Go away and learn some sociology of religion. There isn't exactly a shortage of publications on the subject. The Catholic Church itself, even, has done research into the area. I haven't got time to enlighten you, but until you get out of the basement and see what actually happens in the real world, you won't begin to appreciate why writing "Wrong." is not an argument.
The greatest theologian of the Catholic Church, Hans Kung, is barred from teaching doctrine by the same Ratzinger. In effect, Catholic thought has been hijacked by a relatively small clique of backward authority figures. You could say the same thing about the British Conservative Party and the Church of England. Comment on the USA would be superfluous, as HuffPost does a rather thorough job. Eventually, Popes die.
The point is that Melinda Gates is more typical of Catholics than is the Pope, and Hans Kung articulates the beliefs of educated Catholics far better than Ratzinger's entire hierarchy. It is the Pope that needs to go into unearned retirement.
And, for information, I'm a kind of atheist. I just think that clear thinking about what goes on in religions is much better than simple name calling.
At least that's my assumption. Perhaps you are referring to some other activity. But that would be unlikely, since only trolls do that on Slashdot.
As for car batteries, I believe they are about 95% recyclable. Although sulfuric acid is nasty stuff, it is easy to pour off and treat. In fact, most liquid handling is very easy with well established procedures. Years ago the company I worked for acquired a plating plant (tanks of alkali, nickel and chrome salts, cyanides, concentrated sulfuric acid, you name it). Our insurers promptly cancelled our insurance. The local safety executive recommended us to a specialist insurer, who told us that, though many insurance companies were frightened of plating plants, they actually have an excellent safety record and rarely result in insurance claims. It is a matter of sticking to well-established procedures. There is no reason at all why recycling plants should not be the same.
San Francisco does today what the more advanced parts of the developed world will do tomorrow. It is enormously influential. Its geography is a roll call of large parts of the US computer industry. The first development system I ever used came from Marin County, the second operating system from a place called Berkeley, and much of what has followed has come from Cupertino or Palo Alto. And a slap from the City Council for the largest corporation in the area will play well with the residents.
Reflections off internal surfaces causing interference,and shadowing, just like with mobile phone signals..
Most "Passing off" is subjective; I am reminded of the Chrysler that has been made to look like a Bentley. When asked if they would sue Chrysler for passing off, the Bentley spokesman is said to have replied "Nobody who might actually buy one of our cars would be fooled for an instant." This is a very similar example.
Apple is a widely recognised trade mark, so if it says "Samsung" on the back the chance of confusion is minimal.
It's a multinational corporation that happens to have its headquarters in one of the States of the USA which has a pretty good record on progressive values. Poland has a much smaller population than California. Google is not responsible for what happens in Washington.
Poles come to the UK to work and earn money, go back to Poland...and then come back to the UK because now Poland is a backward country for them. The Polish Government needs to start thinking like a modern, liberal Western democracy because it is in the interests, not only of the younger generation, but of the old and backward who will benefit if the economy improves. Sometimes you just have to kick people around the head (metaphorically) for their own good.
This dispute is entirely about what will happen to the Apple share price if Samsung's higher end phones overtake Apple's sales. US shareholders don't seem to care about the world market, only the US one. Therefore, Apple executive bonuses depend largely on keeping Samsung out of the US.
This may be partial truth and an oversimplification, but I think there is merit in the argument. Currently HTC is struggling, so is Motorola, but Samsung is a huge threat not to Apple (the market is expanding) but to its share price.
Otherwise, why would any company bother with PR or advertising?
The top quark has a mass of about 173GeV, which comfortably beats the 125 of the particle detected at CERN.
Working ballpoint pens would get used, so they do not get an opportunity to cluster together and reproduce. All working ballpoint pens are, in fact, the sterile offspring of all the non-working ones, just as mules are the sterile working offspring of horses and donkeys...hay fever acting up, please forgive this OT post.
But then, the Playbook I can be bothered to carry around with me everywhere has a definite advantage over the iPad or the Transformer that is really just too big for convenience, either for holding or carrying, given my Euro-weenie size and small hands.
Personally, I have a suspicion that I am going to have helpless bank account leak at the sight of the Galaxy Note 2, but in any case, Jobs was wrong.
*Translates as "good speech 16th". If you happen to be Jewish or Muslim, YMMV.
My wife has been financial adviser to several charities and has seen at first hand how the failure to run them like a business wastes the money donated. If people give money to a charity and then find it is being used to give bonuses to executives, pursue goals incompatible with the objects of the charity, or engage in expensive window-dressing, they are rightly upset. A charity should be run like a business to the extent that the overheads should be minimised versus the spend on the object. You are, if I may say so, failing to consider the difference in interests between the donors and the people who actually spend the money.
Meanwhile Big Pharma has let farmers stuff farm animals with antibiotics until resistant bacteria (including old killers like tuberculosis) are a major health problem, while failing to develop new antibiotics. I, like many older people, depend on a couple of drugs to remain healthy and reasonably comfortable, but I believe that the drug industry needs supervision and regulation, just like the banks.
PopeRatzo...a red rag to the remaining Catholics who actually take the Pope seriously. I know one of them and all I can say is, don't mention the Hitlerjugend, he goes ape. (For the record, my personal view is that the Catholic Church is a great institution which has been repeatedly let down by its management. In which it joins a number of banks, and many countries. As someone who believes that Hans Kung is a truly great theologian, I have nothing but contempt for Ratzinger. But giving yourself the nick of "PopeRatzo" is provocative, just as that Irish blogger who called himself Guido Fawkes while anonymously attacking the British government was being provocative. (I mention him just to make the point that Catholics can be tasteless too.. nihil humani a me alienum puto).
Now IBM is basically back to being the old IBM - a company that makes unstoppable mainframes and markets a range of software and consultancy services around them.
You are right: it needs to fail or be broken up. As does HP. In any pyramid management system, the layer above is frantically trying to keep down the layer below. Consultants develop clever schemes that are supposed to prevent this, but the vested interests are such that they get circumvented. The only answer is to remove the top layers of the pyramid, where the ossification is heaviest, and set the layers below adrift to sink or swim.
Of course this doesn't suit the stock market, the banks or the institutional investors, but I would have thought by now we would have realised that what is good for them is bad for the 99%. Germany's strength is that it has many, many middle sized companies run by people who are experts in their business. The USA used to have that.