You are confusing Nyquist rate and Shannon capacity. Not only two different concepts, but two different inventors. The maximum rate at which you can reliably transmit information on a noisy channel is the product of two factors: bandwidth and SNR (in reality, the log of SNR+1, but whatever). In theory, you can transmit as fast as you want with as small a bandwidth as you like, so long as your SNR is sufficiently high.
In practice there are physical and economic limits, but there is no mathematical limit, as you seem to be suggesting.
Are you eluding to the difference between allude and elude? Also, your definition of "loser" is awfully strange. "Amassing billions and billions of dollars" makes one a loser, I guess.
You know, Nimoy went to the trouble of writing a book called I Am Not Spock because he's so damn annoyed at constantly being thought of as a pointy-eared Vulcan...
Calculating the energy levels of a 1-dimensional hydrogen atom is one of the first exercises you do in quantum mechanics. No concepts break down. The reason we have three dimensional electron orbitals is because there are three dimensions. If we had two dimensions, we'd have two dimensional orbitals. I'll let you fill in the answer for one dimension.
What do you get out of framing this response as "Obama is just this guy, you know?" You don't strike me as a particular Obama supporter. You don't seem to think that the criticism is invalid. Is it *just* that the criticism lacked a mention of, well, the guy who *didn't* get put in charge of the matters Obama's being criticized for? That's not a very serious problem.
I guess my criticism is that it's unnecessary to mention names, period. By naming Obama, you had me thinking you are an Obama-hater and that the purpose of your post was to demonstrate the depth of Obama's corruption. I now see that this is not your goal, so I apologize for jumping the gun. But that's really the whole point, isn't it? By naming names you focus attention on the man instead of the general pattern of corruption. I think it would have been better if you hadn't named him.
IBMers also have to sign off on company policies on an annual basis. One of the policies they sign off on is a "no bribery" policy, but...
there are no exceptions.
I really doubt that their policies are significantly different. Here's the relevant text of the policy I mentioned:
This policy does not prohibit properly made and recorded facilitating payments.
Sometimes the Company may be required to make facilitating or expediting payments to
a low level government official or employee in some countries other than the United
States to expedite or secure the performance of routine governmental action by the
government official or employee. Such facilitating payments may not be illegal under the
FCPA or other applicable laws. Nevertheless, it may be difficult to distinguish a legal
facilitating payment from an illegal bribe, kickback, or payoff. Accordingly, facilitating
payments must be strictly controlled and every effort must be made to eliminate or
minimize such payments. Facilitating payments, if required, will be made only in
accordance with the advance guidance of the Legal Department. All facilitating
payments must be recorded accurately as facilitating payments in the accounting
records of the Company.
Once corruption is legitimized, those conditions become the norm.
Those conditions have always been the norm. What you see in the world is not a descent into corruption, but an attempt to ascend out of it. Not everyone is caught up yet. Unless you're willing to say that you'll do no business with 90% of the world, this is how it goes.
I have to sign off on company policies on an annual basis. One of the policies I sign off on is a "no bribery" policy, but it has a fairly fat exception for nations where bribery is an expected and necessary part of doing business. The alternative is to not do business there.
And, had McCain won in 2008, you'd be posting an equally disturbing list of contributors to his campaign as well... Right?
It was said best in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I'm paraphrasing, but it basically goes like this: "The function of the President is to divert attention from what's really going on."
The list you posted should be alarming because it names the biggest buys of political power. But you seem to be using it as a stab against the President.
A number of big dicks are fucking you from all angles, and you're focusing your anger on one particular guy. A guy who probably had his idealism beforehand, then was thrown into the roiling cauldron of Presidential Politics and learned what it's REALLY like. You're falling for the red herring just as has been intended. You lose.
I've seen all the revolting pictures. I don't need to see it in person to know it's bad. However, this is no reason to stop eating meat -- I just insist on knowing a hell of a lot more about how the animal was raised and killed than I used to. In practice this means I buy from small local farmers and more than once I've actually been out to the farm beforehand to check things out. It sounds like Portlandia but that's because I live in Portland;-)
Now, one can make a pretty strong argument that this kind of farming just isn't feasible to feed the entire world's population, and if you made such an argument, I'd agree with you. But I can only fix myself, and so that's what I'm focused on.
Or maybe they're trying to avoid a billion idiot armchair nuclear engineers trying to microanalyze every stupid fucking pixel of the video then feeding this straight into the press? Just a thought.
You see to many people who don't have an automatic fear of anything nuclear
You're saying the correct stance to take is to have an automatic fear of anything nuclear? In other words remove critical thinking from the picture. Uhhhh, okay.
If the cores melt, there really will be no way to deal with it. You'll have hundreds of tons of incredibly radioactive material congealed together in a huge mass. If that happens, we're fucked. The only thing to do is seal it in.
The length of the day already slows by about 15 microseconds per year due to tidal friction. To equal that effect, we'd need about 8 quakes of this size every year.
Only yesterday she was explaining to me how she absolutely had to get two of these kids toys for my kids because they were "2 for $20" and it was "$16.95 for 1" and "such a bargain at that price"
God, I hate this sort of thinking. When somebody says something like this, I try to point out that an even better bargain would be to buy nothing at all -- imagine, you could save $20 that way. They look at me like I'm insane.
A friend of mine who works mostly blue-collar jobs has been told by more than one foreman on a work site: "If you fall from rigging, your employment is terminated before you hit the ground." Apparently this is how they sidestep safety regulations -- I'm not responsible for that guy, he wasn't my employee.
I've bungee jumped from 175 feet before. That's not far... But you have plenty of time to think about what's happening to you on the way down. I'm sure he was doing his dream job, but his last seconds of consciousness were probably the worst terror he'd ever experienced in his life. That really sucks.
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It can't be true because you say so. Nice argument.
I guess all those guys researching quantum wires are just wasting their time.
With this change, a net 2 megawatts less. "We're wasteful, so let's not try to do anything about it." Whoa, what?
that cute secretary in those awesome heels, walks by the open window and gets sucked out of it because the wind shifts just right. It has happened.
Citation? I'm fascinated.
Where are you people getting this "noble, right, wrong, ethical, moral" shit? What does any of that have to do with success?
You are confusing Nyquist rate and Shannon capacity. Not only two different concepts, but two different inventors. The maximum rate at which you can reliably transmit information on a noisy channel is the product of two factors: bandwidth and SNR (in reality, the log of SNR+1, but whatever). In theory, you can transmit as fast as you want with as small a bandwidth as you like, so long as your SNR is sufficiently high.
In practice there are physical and economic limits, but there is no mathematical limit, as you seem to be suggesting.
MS cannot compete in the smartphone market so they fall back to rent seeking.
In other words, they are making money in a market they have no significant products in? Sounds like a success story to me.
Are you eluding to the difference between allude and elude? Also, your definition of "loser" is awfully strange. "Amassing billions and billions of dollars" makes one a loser, I guess.
You know, Nimoy went to the trouble of writing a book called I Am Not Spock because he's so damn annoyed at constantly being thought of as a pointy-eared Vulcan...
Calculating the energy levels of a 1-dimensional hydrogen atom is one of the first exercises you do in quantum mechanics. No concepts break down. The reason we have three dimensional electron orbitals is because there are three dimensions. If we had two dimensions, we'd have two dimensional orbitals. I'll let you fill in the answer for one dimension.
And now I'm realizing that you aren't the OP... Not on the ball today. Sorry again.
What do you get out of framing this response as "Obama is just this guy, you know?" You don't strike me as a particular Obama supporter. You don't seem to think that the criticism is invalid. Is it *just* that the criticism lacked a mention of, well, the guy who *didn't* get put in charge of the matters Obama's being criticized for? That's not a very serious problem.
I guess my criticism is that it's unnecessary to mention names, period. By naming Obama, you had me thinking you are an Obama-hater and that the purpose of your post was to demonstrate the depth of Obama's corruption. I now see that this is not your goal, so I apologize for jumping the gun. But that's really the whole point, isn't it? By naming names you focus attention on the man instead of the general pattern of corruption. I think it would have been better if you hadn't named him.
IBMers also have to sign off on company policies on an annual basis. One of the policies they sign off on is a "no bribery" policy, but... there are no exceptions.
I really doubt that their policies are significantly different. Here's the relevant text of the policy I mentioned:
This policy does not prohibit properly made and recorded facilitating payments. Sometimes the Company may be required to make facilitating or expediting payments to a low level government official or employee in some countries other than the United States to expedite or secure the performance of routine governmental action by the government official or employee. Such facilitating payments may not be illegal under the FCPA or other applicable laws. Nevertheless, it may be difficult to distinguish a legal facilitating payment from an illegal bribe, kickback, or payoff. Accordingly, facilitating payments must be strictly controlled and every effort must be made to eliminate or minimize such payments. Facilitating payments, if required, will be made only in accordance with the advance guidance of the Legal Department. All facilitating payments must be recorded accurately as facilitating payments in the accounting records of the Company.
Note the use of the term "facilitating payments."
Once corruption is legitimized, those conditions become the norm.
Those conditions have always been the norm. What you see in the world is not a descent into corruption, but an attempt to ascend out of it. Not everyone is caught up yet. Unless you're willing to say that you'll do no business with 90% of the world, this is how it goes.
I have to sign off on company policies on an annual basis. One of the policies I sign off on is a "no bribery" policy, but it has a fairly fat exception for nations where bribery is an expected and necessary part of doing business. The alternative is to not do business there.
If you don't want a public answer, why ask a public question?
And, had McCain won in 2008, you'd be posting an equally disturbing list of contributors to his campaign as well... Right?
It was said best in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I'm paraphrasing, but it basically goes like this: "The function of the President is to divert attention from what's really going on."
The list you posted should be alarming because it names the biggest buys of political power. But you seem to be using it as a stab against the President.
A number of big dicks are fucking you from all angles, and you're focusing your anger on one particular guy. A guy who probably had his idealism beforehand, then was thrown into the roiling cauldron of Presidential Politics and learned what it's REALLY like. You're falling for the red herring just as has been intended. You lose.
I've seen all the revolting pictures. I don't need to see it in person to know it's bad. However, this is no reason to stop eating meat -- I just insist on knowing a hell of a lot more about how the animal was raised and killed than I used to. In practice this means I buy from small local farmers and more than once I've actually been out to the farm beforehand to check things out. It sounds like Portlandia but that's because I live in Portland ;-)
Now, one can make a pretty strong argument that this kind of farming just isn't feasible to feed the entire world's population, and if you made such an argument, I'd agree with you. But I can only fix myself, and so that's what I'm focused on.
Or maybe they're trying to avoid a billion idiot armchair nuclear engineers trying to microanalyze every stupid fucking pixel of the video then feeding this straight into the press? Just a thought.
You see to many people who don't have an automatic fear of anything nuclear
You're saying the correct stance to take is to have an automatic fear of anything nuclear? In other words remove critical thinking from the picture. Uhhhh, okay.
If the cores melt, there really will be no way to deal with it. You'll have hundreds of tons of incredibly radioactive material congealed together in a huge mass. If that happens, we're fucked. The only thing to do is seal it in.
The length of the day already slows by about 15 microseconds per year due to tidal friction. To equal that effect, we'd need about 8 quakes of this size every year.
Only yesterday she was explaining to me how she absolutely had to get two of these kids toys for my kids because they were "2 for $20" and it was "$16.95 for 1" and "such a bargain at that price"
God, I hate this sort of thinking. When somebody says something like this, I try to point out that an even better bargain would be to buy nothing at all -- imagine, you could save $20 that way. They look at me like I'm insane.
So, if you're a jerk, we get to twist the law to hold you accountable for things that aren't illegal? That's how it works?
A friend of mine who works mostly blue-collar jobs has been told by more than one foreman on a work site: "If you fall from rigging, your employment is terminated before you hit the ground." Apparently this is how they sidestep safety regulations -- I'm not responsible for that guy, he wasn't my employee.
I've bungee jumped from 175 feet before. That's not far... But you have plenty of time to think about what's happening to you on the way down. I'm sure he was doing his dream job, but his last seconds of consciousness were probably the worst terror he'd ever experienced in his life. That really sucks.
That's really awful. But... Aren't these guys supposed to be clipped in when they're working up there?