Just don't have any emails around stating this is your "anti-competitive" reason. Send only emails highlighting your desire to help mankind by making games more affordable to the masses. (This is meant to be humorous).
Although if you looked at the video - they had flow controlled by response to other flows in the system. For example the video goes over the roll of interest rates and how the water flow rate is affected by a non-linear response. It appears in the video that these responses are replaceable - you can choose a response with any shape. So you can try out model scenarios. In your example above you could create something like this computer - with flow on the road (congestion) that responds to stimuli - like more people using the road if you widen the road. Instead of modeling in a computer the flow of water they should have made a hydraulic computer.
As an aside I heard some of the nuclear physicist that were lacking something to do when we stopped making nukes, got a grant and used their modeling skills on congestion. To test their models they would go out in cars and create traffic jams by following some of the model parameters. So who knows - many/.ers may have been test subjects for congestion model verification.
Wow does this bring back memories. I learned to fly in grad school in 1984 and learned to use the E6B. I may still have it, even though I no longer fly. Each time I move I consider tossing the item, but can't for sentimental reasons. Amazing they are still in use, not replaced by electronics, but I understand now having read your post and the Wikipedia article.
We get three papers a day and one weekly. Two big cities nearby and the papers give different information and slants. One paper is a smaller city nearby and the weekly was the one that went under and had the notices for the city I live in. We read them in the morning and I take to work to have something to read during lunch. But then I am on the internet at night. My wife reads the locals to see what is up in the community - she is quite politically active. But we also just turned 50 - so on the cusp of being old enough to need and value newspapers and young enough to be on the tech tide.
I think if the local paper was/is widely distributed this old method might be read more widely (people without internet access, or not visiting city/state web sites often). These can be stored in libraries and seen casually around town. But our local paper of record just closed its doors, not sure where these notices will be printed now.
If you are looking for something specific (say you want to bid on a contract which might be announced using these methods) probably an internet site where you can search is best. But for the function of a watchdog or check on govt. both can hide information, with the paper printing less likely (it has to hid in plain site in small print).
I think the extra fizz is due to them charging plastic bottles with more CO2 because it slowly leaks through the plastic. To provide some shelf life they overcharge the CO2 initially. You must be purchasing "fresh" coke in PET bottles.
I am glad to hear a report from an academic lab, where they have adopted such safety measures. I was in grad school 25 yrs ago and so I have to allow for improvement over time.
I guess I work in a more industrial lab vs fine chemicals or QC. Over the 25 yrs I have seen this practice disappear. I guess they got tired of near misses and actual accidents. You would have to prove you had no other option (for example you could not find a vendor of distilled IPA). I still think the grad students are at an unfair disadvantage.
Grad school is all about working "off hours", I've been there and done that. I did not have safety glasses in grad school, at work I am required to have them and they are paid for by my employer. They go around and check on your use of PPE (personal protective equipment) and inspect your lab for safety (this did not happen in grad school) At an industrial job any new process requires a review by the safety team. You are completely on your own at grad school. The victim in most accidents like this have a role in the disaster. But safety is all about making the process or experiment inherently safe or at least safer through training, providing proper safety equipment and reviewing the process that the student is planning on using.
Wait till you get to industry. Much stricter. Everytime there is an accident there is a report to OSHA and an internal investigation. Procedures are changed, even to the side of overkill. Factories all keep track of the number of days since a reportable accident, and this number is rarely more than a couple of months. We get training each and every year on safety. We get monthly email bulletins of near misses and what we can learn. There are walk around audits of the lab areas.
Example: recently the factory started requiring a splash shield over the standard wrap around safety glasses. Why? Someone splashed a small amount of isopropyl alcohol in their eye even though they had the wrap around safety glasses. Do you wear both a splash shield and safety glasses when you dispense IPA from a squeeze bottle?
In grad school a woman was severely burned refluxing THF (flammable solvent) with metallic sodium (pyrophoric as in this article) in a glass round bottom flask in a hood (using an electric heating mantle). By accident the round bottom was not vented to atmospheric pressure (the stop cock was still in the neck). The THF was refluxing under pressure and this woman noticed and removed the stopper. The THF immediately turned into a gas, filled the hood, caught fire and exploded. Blew out the windows from the building.
No industrial lab would allow a flammable solvent near an electrically charged heating mantle. This would have to be done in a Class 1 Group D flammable safety room (intrinsically safe electricity wiring and blow out walls (no windows), you have to wear ESD shoes to prevent sparking) in a sealed container. At the graduate level you have no supervision, unlike undergrad labs that have been somewhat pre-screened and made medium safe. Not in grad school.
I read many years ago in a chemical trade magazine (and no I can't seem to find an internet link)that the LD 50 height for falling is 11 feet. Meaning that when people fall unexpectedly (vs jumping) from a height of 11 feet, 50 percent of them die. So you would need to ban tall single story buildings. I will keep trying to find a link but apparently there is a band called LD 50 and they keep clogging the google results. BTW - after reading this I never go up on ladders higher than the top of my house windows. I pay someone else to risk their life.
Initially Verizon wanted the full overdue bill, and the article does not mention how much that was. So the only negotiated the $20 reactivation fee later, who knows how long this took?
There there is the issue of actually getting the money to Verizon. Does the PD have a VISA card they can use to pay a phone bill that is not theirs? Would the online payment system even allow you to pay someone else's bill? Do you know their password to gain access? I suspect the problem on actually making the payment was a) the initial amount was pretty high causing the PD to pause since they expected Verizon to volunteer to help and b) the details of getting permission to pay the $20 and then the details of payment.
I would for a large company and have no ability to spend company money. I have to submit an electronic form. Then my admin has to call or log in and enter an AMEX card (no VISA allowed so you are screwed if the web site takes only VISA). You may have to set up an account, sometimes they do credit checks before you can pay. It sounds simple to say "just pay em $20". Just try this if you work at a larger organization like the police department.
I know you posted with a smiley face, but I thought I would comment on the obviousness. I have patents and been through the process (I work for a large company so we patent often and thus have staff to do the items I will describe).
We do a thorough prior art search using skilled patent search librarians. The last thing you want to have happen is to go through the process and expense to find prior art that stops you from getting a patent - and if the prior art is a patent might prevent you from bringing your product to market (you could negotiate a license though).We are under a legal obligation to provide the prior art that we know of to the patent office.
Then the patent examiner does his own searching to find prior art. In fact nearly all the patents we file have their claims rejected due to obviousness or overlapping claims from the prior art. A long back and forth goes on arguing over fine points of patent law and these references. Sometimes claims are modified to get around these objections
But in the end quite a bit of time and resources are focuses on the obviousness of the claims. I know there have been some publicity on patents in the internet era, in fields arguably the patent office was less skilled at examining. I am not sure but I believe subsequent litigation corrected the most of the worst examples.
You can also get a patent that is a clear improvement on an existing patent. So here the general concept was very obvious. And in practice you are "underneath" the other patent, you can't practice your improvement without consent of the original patent. This often leads to cross licensing as both parties could benefit.
Good comments here. The instruments need to prove a level of accuracy, and then prove they have been calibrated. Where I work we calibrate all the instruments. If an instrument falls out of spec (detected during calibration check) we have to go back to any data that was generated from the instrument and see if the error would change our analysis. The instrument has to be brought back to spec, and the frequency of calibration increases.
I agree. Tonight's shows on the Science HD channel was about the probe being sent to Pluto, and they brought up how the planet (now considered a dwarf officially) was named. Lots of interest in these outer objects as the belt where they come from may help explain more how our solar system was formed.
I did consider that the writing was not true. Either they actually did the action described or they are good fiction writers. The detail and deviousness was too real and visceral to be fiction (I thought).
This is not the first such similar post, and as mentioned these posts do make my day. But I will try to be on guard in the future.
So this poster lives in a non-unionized state and it is still hard to fire teachers. Maybe the issue is that in general it is hard to fire people (due to their ability to sue you I assume). Maybe this is a good thing. It prevents a vindictive or loony boss from firing you without a real cause, not just because you were vaguely "bad" at your job (obtained as hearsay reported by others, not a solid metric).
What I love about/. People publicly admitting to illegal behavior and encouraging others to copy their behavior. I am sure the officers let go from the military with dishonorable discharges would agree no harm was done, their lives went on fine as if you had not done anything.;-)
I am in MN also. One of the most vocal users of online gambling brought up a good point; he not only gambles at one of the proposed sited to be banned but also gets paid to offer instruction on the same site (teaching others how to play poker). So the state would be blocking him from earning a living. I wonder if the authors had thought of this aspect? Also would this be a legal argument that might win the day (in the long run)?
I read once that there were a few reasons NASA was always pretty far behind on processors compared with home PC's. Keep in mind this is from memory.
1. By waiting the get processors who's flaws are well known (no surprises)
2. They can get radiation hardened chips. It takes time to develop such a chip, and you want the one with known flaws, so by definition the chip is out of date.
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I think that bratwurst is doggie cocaine (at least judging my dog's response and your post).
It's insane, but there's also a metric ton of cash involved,
At least you are going metric, even if it is one inch at a time....
Just don't have any emails around stating this is your "anti-competitive" reason. Send only emails highlighting your desire to help mankind by making games more affordable to the masses. (This is meant to be humorous).
Although if you looked at the video - they had flow controlled by response to other flows in the system. For example the video goes over the roll of interest rates and how the water flow rate is affected by a non-linear response. It appears in the video that these responses are replaceable - you can choose a response with any shape. So you can try out model scenarios. In your example above you could create something like this computer - with flow on the road (congestion) that responds to stimuli - like more people using the road if you widen the road. Instead of modeling in a computer the flow of water they should have made a hydraulic computer. As an aside I heard some of the nuclear physicist that were lacking something to do when we stopped making nukes, got a grant and used their modeling skills on congestion. To test their models they would go out in cars and create traffic jams by following some of the model parameters. So who knows - many /.ers may have been test subjects for congestion model verification.
Wow does this bring back memories. I learned to fly in grad school in 1984 and learned to use the E6B. I may still have it, even though I no longer fly. Each time I move I consider tossing the item, but can't for sentimental reasons. Amazing they are still in use, not replaced by electronics, but I understand now having read your post and the Wikipedia article.
We get three papers a day and one weekly. Two big cities nearby and the papers give different information and slants. One paper is a smaller city nearby and the weekly was the one that went under and had the notices for the city I live in. We read them in the morning and I take to work to have something to read during lunch. But then I am on the internet at night. My wife reads the locals to see what is up in the community - she is quite politically active. But we also just turned 50 - so on the cusp of being old enough to need and value newspapers and young enough to be on the tech tide.
I think if the local paper was/is widely distributed this old method might be read more widely (people without internet access, or not visiting city/state web sites often). These can be stored in libraries and seen casually around town. But our local paper of record just closed its doors, not sure where these notices will be printed now.
If you are looking for something specific (say you want to bid on a contract which might be announced using these methods) probably an internet site where you can search is best. But for the function of a watchdog or check on govt. both can hide information, with the paper printing less likely (it has to hid in plain site in small print).
I think the extra fizz is due to them charging plastic bottles with more CO2 because it slowly leaks through the plastic. To provide some shelf life they overcharge the CO2 initially. You must be purchasing "fresh" coke in PET bottles.
I am glad to hear a report from an academic lab, where they have adopted such safety measures. I was in grad school 25 yrs ago and so I have to allow for improvement over time.
I guess I work in a more industrial lab vs fine chemicals or QC. Over the 25 yrs I have seen this practice disappear. I guess they got tired of near misses and actual accidents. You would have to prove you had no other option (for example you could not find a vendor of distilled IPA). I still think the grad students are at an unfair disadvantage.
Grad school is all about working "off hours", I've been there and done that. I did not have safety glasses in grad school, at work I am required to have them and they are paid for by my employer. They go around and check on your use of PPE (personal protective equipment) and inspect your lab for safety (this did not happen in grad school) At an industrial job any new process requires a review by the safety team. You are completely on your own at grad school. The victim in most accidents like this have a role in the disaster. But safety is all about making the process or experiment inherently safe or at least safer through training, providing proper safety equipment and reviewing the process that the student is planning on using.
Wait till you get to industry. Much stricter. Everytime there is an accident there is a report to OSHA and an internal investigation. Procedures are changed, even to the side of overkill. Factories all keep track of the number of days since a reportable accident, and this number is rarely more than a couple of months. We get training each and every year on safety. We get monthly email bulletins of near misses and what we can learn. There are walk around audits of the lab areas.
Example: recently the factory started requiring a splash shield over the standard wrap around safety glasses. Why? Someone splashed a small amount of isopropyl alcohol in their eye even though they had the wrap around safety glasses. Do you wear both a splash shield and safety glasses when you dispense IPA from a squeeze bottle?
In grad school a woman was severely burned refluxing THF (flammable solvent) with metallic sodium (pyrophoric as in this article) in a glass round bottom flask in a hood (using an electric heating mantle). By accident the round bottom was not vented to atmospheric pressure (the stop cock was still in the neck). The THF was refluxing under pressure and this woman noticed and removed the stopper. The THF immediately turned into a gas, filled the hood, caught fire and exploded. Blew out the windows from the building.
No industrial lab would allow a flammable solvent near an electrically charged heating mantle. This would have to be done in a Class 1 Group D flammable safety room (intrinsically safe electricity wiring and blow out walls (no windows), you have to wear ESD shoes to prevent sparking) in a sealed container. At the graduate level you have no supervision, unlike undergrad labs that have been somewhat pre-screened and made medium safe. Not in grad school.
The best data I could find does not support 11 ft as the LD50 for falls. The mean height was 48 ft and the median was 28 feet in a study by NIOSH. . Still best not to fall off the roof of your home.
I read many years ago in a chemical trade magazine (and no I can't seem to find an internet link)that the LD 50 height for falling is 11 feet. Meaning that when people fall unexpectedly (vs jumping) from a height of 11 feet, 50 percent of them die. So you would need to ban tall single story buildings. I will keep trying to find a link but apparently there is a band called LD 50 and they keep clogging the google results. BTW - after reading this I never go up on ladders higher than the top of my house windows. I pay someone else to risk their life.
Initially Verizon wanted the full overdue bill, and the article does not mention how much that was. So the only negotiated the $20 reactivation fee later, who knows how long this took?
There there is the issue of actually getting the money to Verizon. Does the PD have a VISA card they can use to pay a phone bill that is not theirs? Would the online payment system even allow you to pay someone else's bill? Do you know their password to gain access? I suspect the problem on actually making the payment was a) the initial amount was pretty high causing the PD to pause since they expected Verizon to volunteer to help and b) the details of getting permission to pay the $20 and then the details of payment.
I would for a large company and have no ability to spend company money. I have to submit an electronic form. Then my admin has to call or log in and enter an AMEX card (no VISA allowed so you are screwed if the web site takes only VISA). You may have to set up an account, sometimes they do credit checks before you can pay. It sounds simple to say "just pay em $20". Just try this if you work at a larger organization like the police department.
I know you posted with a smiley face, but I thought I would comment on the obviousness. I have patents and been through the process (I work for a large company so we patent often and thus have staff to do the items I will describe).
We do a thorough prior art search using skilled patent search librarians. The last thing you want to have happen is to go through the process and expense to find prior art that stops you from getting a patent - and if the prior art is a patent might prevent you from bringing your product to market (you could negotiate a license though).We are under a legal obligation to provide the prior art that we know of to the patent office.
Then the patent examiner does his own searching to find prior art. In fact nearly all the patents we file have their claims rejected due to obviousness or overlapping claims from the prior art. A long back and forth goes on arguing over fine points of patent law and these references. Sometimes claims are modified to get around these objections
But in the end quite a bit of time and resources are focuses on the obviousness of the claims. I know there have been some publicity on patents in the internet era, in fields arguably the patent office was less skilled at examining. I am not sure but I believe subsequent litigation corrected the most of the worst examples.
You can also get a patent that is a clear improvement on an existing patent. So here the general concept was very obvious. And in practice you are "underneath" the other patent, you can't practice your improvement without consent of the original patent. This often leads to cross licensing as both parties could benefit.
Thanks. Great link.
Good comments here. The instruments need to prove a level of accuracy, and then prove they have been calibrated. Where I work we calibrate all the instruments. If an instrument falls out of spec (detected during calibration check) we have to go back to any data that was generated from the instrument and see if the error would change our analysis. The instrument has to be brought back to spec, and the frequency of calibration increases.
Can someone detail how someone makes money with malware? I thought the motivation was just the glory. But I have not followed the field much.
I agree. Tonight's shows on the Science HD channel was about the probe being sent to Pluto, and they brought up how the planet (now considered a dwarf officially) was named. Lots of interest in these outer objects as the belt where they come from may help explain more how our solar system was formed.
I did consider that the writing was not true. Either they actually did the action described or they are good fiction writers. The detail and deviousness was too real and visceral to be fiction (I thought). This is not the first such similar post, and as mentioned these posts do make my day. But I will try to be on guard in the future.
So this poster lives in a non-unionized state and it is still hard to fire teachers. Maybe the issue is that in general it is hard to fire people (due to their ability to sue you I assume). Maybe this is a good thing. It prevents a vindictive or loony boss from firing you without a real cause, not just because you were vaguely "bad" at your job (obtained as hearsay reported by others, not a solid metric).
What I love about /. People publicly admitting to illegal behavior and encouraging others to copy their behavior. I am sure the officers let go from the military with dishonorable discharges would agree no harm was done, their lives went on fine as if you had not done anything. ;-)
I am in MN also. One of the most vocal users of online gambling brought up a good point; he not only gambles at one of the proposed sited to be banned but also gets paid to offer instruction on the same site (teaching others how to play poker). So the state would be blocking him from earning a living. I wonder if the authors had thought of this aspect? Also would this be a legal argument that might win the day (in the long run)?
I read once that there were a few reasons NASA was always pretty far behind on processors compared with home PC's. Keep in mind this is from memory.
1. By waiting the get processors who's flaws are well known (no surprises)
2. They can get radiation hardened chips. It takes time to develop such a chip, and you want the one with known flaws, so by definition the chip is out of date.
3. The power requirements are low.