Sco is in Utah...Orin Hatch is one of Utah's Senators. Sen Hatch de-distinguished himself when he said it would be ok for a copyright holder to nuke your computer.
There's a provision in copyright law that accords the author of a work the copyright. Usually the way it works is programmers sign a "work for hire" contract that assigns copyrights to the company they work for. However, if you didn't execute the agreement, then you own the copyright.
So the question is: "did you sign a 'work for hire' document when you joined the company?"
Even if you did, if they shut down without paying you your last paycheck, you may have a case that the company failed to live up to their side of the contract - i.e. pay you for your labor.
It was an attempt to understand what was going on in the nucleus that, like a lot of other ideas, died in the face of data. Once Stanford's Linear Accelerator started producing quarks and theory caught up with the experimental data, the Tao viewpoint was dead except in New Age bookstores.
A much better book is Riordan's, The Hunting of The Quark.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the weavers had the same fear - the machines would put them out of a job. What ended up happening is the job changed - more people are employed today than there were people in the 1700's.
Bean's mistake is to assume that humans fail to adapt. I think he's right that some jobs that require humans today will go away but, just as in the past, new jobs will open up to those willing to adapt.
There's an old story about a chess player who makes a deal with the Devil. Satan, through his sub daemons, agrees to make the chess player the best chess player in the world on two conditions... 1) He relinquishes his soul (standard boilerplate stuff) 2) After he dies, he'll play a game of chess every day with Satan.
Man agrees, becomes undisputed champion, beats Deep Blue blindfolded, etc. Eventually, he dies, goes to Hell, and sits down to play his first game with Satan. It's then that he realizes that Satan is, quite literally, an idiot.
London uses CCTV to impose a congestion charge on you whenever you drive into downtown London. The camera photographs your car and you get a bill for driving in the city. The idea is to reduce traffic to a manageable level and provide revenues for the bus system.
The tax is politically unusual in that Milton Friedman, a conservative economist at the University of Chicago, came up with the idea and Ken Livingston, a socialist, implemented it.
Every time a new carrier is commissioned I think back to Admiral Yamamoto recognizing that battleships were dead meat as a result of the new technology called carriers. He proved it in the opening salvos of WWII when HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk 3 days after Pearl Harbor.
The thing is is that the technology has moved on - the carriers are now the obsolete weapon. One small atomic bomb, whether it's delivered on a ship-to-ship missile or a torpedo will not only wipe out the carrier but take out its support group as well. Inside that column of water is a carrier being lifted like a toy by the rising water. Carriers may be useful in wars against third world countries but they won't fare so well if we ever go up against a country that has the bomb.
For some reason the Navy intentionally blinds itself to this. In his autobiography, Scott Waddle, the former commander of the U.S.S. Greeneville, said that during a carrier's shakedown cruise, he had been tasked to play the role of a Russian sub. He played his role aggressively and managed to hide his sub underneath a noisy support ship which rendered the anti-sub defenses worthless. Had it been a shooting war, the group would have been destroyed with a single torpedo. The incredible thing about the incident was that Waddle was reprimanded for being too aggressive and making the carrier's captain look bad.
What they have proposed is to put a large platform at about 20000 ft,
Why bother floating a balloon to 20,000 feet when they have mountains that reach 28,000 feet and are on the equator?
Both the platform and the rockets could be put into position by the use of balloons, although hydrogen rather than helium would probably be used as it has a higher specific impulse.
Higher specific impulse? Helium is inert and hence doesn't have a specific impulse. Perhaps you meant using helium as a lifting gas? If you did then you don't use rocket terms like specific impulse. Bouyancy may be what you had in mind.
The ISS was out - it was on a different orbit and the Shuttle didn't have enough fuel to make the transition.
On the other hand, I have also wondered why the hell they couldn't send up an empty shuttle and bring everyone back on it. Moreover, once the Columbia had been emptied, they could have tried to bring it back with out bleeding off speed using S turns. The Columbia broke apart as it was slaloming and had just loaded up the damaged wing. Had they known the wing was busted, they may have been able to slide slip the whole way in and kept the damaged wing trailing on the backside the whole way down.
All those ideas go out the door when the shuttle manager said "Even had we known, there was nothing we could have done." For that sentiment alone, he deserved to go - it was a far cry from Gene Kranz'es "failure is not an option" attitude when Apollo 13 blew an oxygen tank.
I had a Gigabyte MB that had onboard audio which was good enough. I primarily listen to internet radio at 24kbs so my needs aren't anywhere near audiophile level.
When the Gigabyte died (I keep my computer inside a box to squelch the noise from the fans and hard drives -tends to get a bit toasty) I replaced it with a DFI motherboard. Its onboard audio was atrocious - very scratchy as if it was playing an old vinyl record that had spent the past 10 years gathering dust in the Mojave. To give you an idea of how lousy it was, the $3 sound card I picked up on ebay sounds great by comparison.
If I steal one Gap sweater, that's one less sweater that the Gap has to sell... but if I make a perfect bit-by-bit copy of a CD and hand it to a friend, the original is still completely intact and able to be sold, used, or traded.
Your argument ignores that to complete a sale requires both buyer and seller. Sure, the seller of the CD you ripped still has plenty of CD's for sale but the copies you distribute reduce the number of buyers for the CD. One might argue that the copied CDs advertise the original CD and thereby increase the market. But there's an old aphorism that applies here; "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" There are plenty of reasons for downloading music but failing to acknowledge the free loading that's involved is disingenous.
They'll just extend the scan to include the feet as well.
The bigger problem is even then it's not clear his explosive would have shown up. He didn't have any wiring or timer - just plain explosive shaped to look like part of the shoe. If whoever made made both shoes had made the shoes the same way so they matched, who is going to recognize a pair of explosive shoe tongues? Sniffing? Without getting explicit, there are ways of circumventing the chemical sniffers as well. As Abraham Lincoln once said "If a man wants to kill me, he'll find a way."
I saw the digital version in Santa Clara and couldn't tell the difference between film. There may be some difference to a trained eye but to most of us it's like the difference between 2.8 GHZ and 3 GHZ Pentiums.
Theft is a bigger issue which may be why the studios are trying to get to a level where you have to have the hardware to get an image that blows away whatever a pirate would use to show the movie. Several years ago, Silicon Light developed a display technique that appeared quite promising. It was a high speed optical switch that appeared to be easily scaleable from the 1080 lines they originally demonstrated. Even at 1080 lines, the contrast ratio was 3000:1. Unfortunately, Silicon Light sold the display technology to Sony who has done zip with it in the intervening 3 years.
They've figured out how to make strands of nanotube fibers that are as thick as a human hair and more importantly, 120-200 meters long. The article focuses on the use of the fibers in textiles but to me, they make fabricating a space elevator cable more feasible than before. Carbon nanotube fabrication still constrain the cost issues but at least we now know how to make useable length fibers.
If we can figure out to make carbon tubes in bulk quantities it'll be time to start seriously looking at building a space elevator and we can forget about the tether altogether.
If you put your foot on the platform and push it upright, it'll come on, and you step on it, and off you go. However, if you wait too long, it'll shut off, and when you step up, it won't turn on and you fall on your face.
If I understand you properly, you step on it "soon enough," it does the right thing. But wait "too long," step on it and you take a tumble? All because there isn't a pressure sensor that says "Gee, somebody is standing on the platform!"
Gee, your post sounds like how I used to sound and your profile certainly explains why I got RSI. I only was running 3 miles every other day and lifting weights. I had been coding for 25 years with nary a problem so I figured the RSI crowd was a bunch of wankers. Until one period where I typed straight for 14 hours/day for 3 weeks. That particular type of work with no breaks while the compiler did its thing or I stared at a screen trying to understand where the bug was lurking led me directly to RSI. The running and weight work were for naught when compared to not holding my wrists properly while I typed.
Yeah, you sound just like I used to sound till I experienced RSI first hand. Funny how experience will change your viewpoint.
There's a recurring fantasy that patents are worth boatloads of money. That's only true if you already have boatloads of money.
Case in point. My father was an engineer in the 30's and early 40's. He patented the first working variable pitch propellor. The first two patents were for designs that couldn't handle the stresses involved - he figured out how to solve both problems simultaneously. Chances are you've flown on a plane that used a variant of his invention. He tried to peddle the design but the company he was dealing with didn't like his terms so they just took the idea. The contingency lawyers he talked to wanted such a big slice of any payout that he didn't figure it was worth pursuing that avenue. My father didn't have enough money to fund a lawsuit and that was that. He did a bit more work after that - designed the landing gear for the DC-3 among other things.
It's worth noting that the article is talking about a lawyer patenting his own ideas. That perfectly illustrates who the patent system is set up to benefit.
At 15,000 degrees Celsius (27,032 degrees Fahrenheit), the plasma valve is about 50 times hotter than room temperature when measured in degrees Kelvin.
The last little qualifier, when measured in degrees Kelvin is ugly, but accurate. Why the press release didn't just say 500 times hotter than room temperature and be done with it is beyond me. You can put money down on whoever repeats the sentence is going to drop the qualifier and end up looking like a fool.
Your post could have come straight from Mao's lips and been about as accurate. The most glaring errors are:
Remember that in 1940 Japan, under the guise of being neutral to China, fought their way up the Korean peninsula all the while constantly telling the Chinese to relax because all they wanted was Korea.
Let's see. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 took place on the outskirts of Beijing where the Japanese Army clashed with the Chinese. The Rape of Nanking started in December of 1937. The Japanese were all over China by the time 1940 came around.
But when the 38th parallel was reached, the American troops kept rolling in a fashion reminiscent to 1940. They kept moving, and they were quickly approaching the top of the peninsula. Again, China said that they would not intervene so long as the US did not enter the mainland, and the US agreed. So when American troops reached the top of the peninsula and kept on rolling, pardon the Chinese for thinking this looked a bit too much like the last time it had been invaded.
The Americans didn't cross into mainland China. China said she would enter the war if we crossed the 38th. The 38th is halfway up the peninsula - nowhere near mainland China.
Like you, I don't mind the idea of the Chinese trying for the moon but, unlike you, I do mind attempting to revise history. Your attempt to paint the Americans as the agressors in the Korean War is pathetic.
Did it rub off on the guy's glove when he weighs it each year?
Is there something else going on?
So somehow you manage to build a smooth silicon sphere instead of a platinum bar. What exactly have you gained? Why won't it whither away like the platinum is doing?What advantage does silicon have over Platinum? Fewer isotopes, less reactive or something else?
How will you know you have a kg's worth? We can't seem to get a decent reading on G, let alone the number of atoms in a silicon sphere.
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What are the chances that Paul is Orin's son?
Wait till the CDs warp because a UPS truck was parked too long in the sun baking the black box.
So the question is: "did you sign a 'work for hire' document when you joined the company?"
Even if you did, if they shut down without paying you your last paycheck, you may have a case that the company failed to live up to their side of the contract - i.e. pay you for your labor.
A much better book is Riordan's, The Hunting of The Quark.
Instead of trying to be clever, you're probably better off not trusting a publically accessible computer.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the weavers had the same fear - the machines would put them out of a job. What ended up happening is the job changed - more people are employed today than there were people in the 1700's.
Bean's mistake is to assume that humans fail to adapt. I think he's right that some jobs that require humans today will go away but, just as in the past, new jobs will open up to those willing to adapt.
There's an old story about a chess player who makes a deal with the Devil. Satan, through his sub daemons, agrees to make the chess player the best chess player in the world on two conditions... 1) He relinquishes his soul (standard boilerplate stuff) 2) After he dies, he'll play a game of chess every day with Satan.
Man agrees, becomes undisputed champion, beats Deep Blue blindfolded, etc. Eventually, he dies, goes to Hell, and sits down to play his first game with Satan. It's then that he realizes that Satan is, quite literally, an idiot.
London uses CCTV to impose a congestion charge on you whenever you drive into downtown London. The camera photographs your car and you get a bill for driving in the city. The idea is to reduce traffic to a manageable level and provide revenues for the bus system.
The tax is politically unusual in that Milton Friedman, a conservative economist at the University of Chicago, came up with the idea and Ken Livingston, a socialist, implemented it.
The thing is is that the technology has moved on - the carriers are now the obsolete weapon. One small atomic bomb, whether it's delivered on a ship-to-ship missile or a torpedo will not only wipe out the carrier but take out its support group as well. Inside that column of water is a carrier being lifted like a toy by the rising water. Carriers may be useful in wars against third world countries but they won't fare so well if we ever go up against a country that has the bomb.
For some reason the Navy intentionally blinds itself to this. In his autobiography, Scott Waddle, the former commander of the U.S.S. Greeneville, said that during a carrier's shakedown cruise, he had been tasked to play the role of a Russian sub. He played his role aggressively and managed to hide his sub underneath a noisy support ship which rendered the anti-sub defenses worthless. Had it been a shooting war, the group would have been destroyed with a single torpedo. The incredible thing about the incident was that Waddle was reprimanded for being too aggressive and making the carrier's captain look bad.
Why bother floating a balloon to 20,000 feet when they have mountains that reach 28,000 feet and are on the equator?
Both the platform and the rockets could be put into position by the use of balloons, although hydrogen rather than helium would probably be used as it has a higher specific impulse.
Higher specific impulse? Helium is inert and hence doesn't have a specific impulse. Perhaps you meant using helium as a lifting gas? If you did then you don't use rocket terms like specific impulse. Bouyancy may be what you had in mind.
The article reminded me of this video.
The ISS was out - it was on a different orbit and the Shuttle didn't have enough fuel to make the transition.
On the other hand, I have also wondered why the hell they couldn't send up an empty shuttle and bring everyone back on it. Moreover, once the Columbia had been emptied, they could have tried to bring it back with out bleeding off speed using S turns. The Columbia broke apart as it was slaloming and had just loaded up the damaged wing. Had they known the wing was busted, they may have been able to slide slip the whole way in and kept the damaged wing trailing on the backside the whole way down.
All those ideas go out the door when the shuttle manager said "Even had we known, there was nothing we could have done." For that sentiment alone, he deserved to go - it was a far cry from Gene Kranz'es "failure is not an option" attitude when Apollo 13 blew an oxygen tank.
I had a Gigabyte MB that had onboard audio which was good enough. I primarily listen to internet radio at 24kbs so my needs aren't anywhere near audiophile level.
When the Gigabyte died (I keep my computer inside a box to squelch the noise from the fans and hard drives -tends to get a bit toasty) I replaced it with a DFI motherboard. Its onboard audio was atrocious - very scratchy as if it was playing an old vinyl record that had spent the past 10 years gathering dust in the Mojave. To give you an idea of how lousy it was, the $3 sound card I picked up on ebay sounds great by comparison.
Your argument ignores that to complete a sale requires both buyer and seller. Sure, the seller of the CD you ripped still has plenty of CD's for sale but the copies you distribute reduce the number of buyers for the CD. One might argue that the copied CDs advertise the original CD and thereby increase the market. But there's an old aphorism that applies here; "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" There are plenty of reasons for downloading music but failing to acknowledge the free loading that's involved is disingenous.
The bigger problem is even then it's not clear his explosive would have shown up. He didn't have any wiring or timer - just plain explosive shaped to look like part of the shoe. If whoever made made both shoes had made the shoes the same way so they matched, who is going to recognize a pair of explosive shoe tongues? Sniffing? Without getting explicit, there are ways of circumventing the chemical sniffers as well. As Abraham Lincoln once said "If a man wants to kill me, he'll find a way."
- Email Extraction Software
- Realtime IP Tracking - Buy 25,000 visitors
- Create freedom,wealth,...
and so on.If nothing else, the attack you describe is a way to harvest current email addresses.
Theft is a bigger issue which may be why the studios are trying to get to a level where you have to have the hardware to get an image that blows away whatever a pirate would use to show the movie. Several years ago, Silicon Light developed a display technique that appeared quite promising. It was a high speed optical switch that appeared to be easily scaleable from the 1080 lines they originally demonstrated. Even at 1080 lines, the contrast ratio was 3000:1. Unfortunately, Silicon Light sold the display technology to Sony who has done zip with it in the intervening 3 years.
This is slightly off topic but Science News has an article on a significant improvement in carbon nanotube strand fabrication.
They've figured out how to make strands of nanotube fibers that are as thick as a human hair and more importantly, 120-200 meters long. The article focuses on the use of the fibers in textiles but to me, they make fabricating a space elevator cable more feasible than before. Carbon nanotube fabrication still constrain the cost issues but at least we now know how to make useable length fibers.
If we can figure out to make carbon tubes in bulk quantities it'll be time to start seriously looking at building a space elevator and we can forget about the tether altogether.
Which is why PCI Express is specified as a scaleable technology. You can get single pin X1, dual pin X2, quad pin X4, and so on.
Need more bandwidith - add more pins. With each pin delivering 100 megabytes, there's lots of room to grow.
If I understand you properly, you step on it "soon enough," it does the right thing. But wait "too long," step on it and you take a tumble? All because there isn't a pressure sensor that says "Gee, somebody is standing on the platform!"
Bizarre.
Yeah, you sound just like I used to sound till I experienced RSI first hand. Funny how experience will change your viewpoint.
Case in point. My father was an engineer in the 30's and early 40's. He patented the first working variable pitch propellor. The first two patents were for designs that couldn't handle the stresses involved - he figured out how to solve both problems simultaneously. Chances are you've flown on a plane that used a variant of his invention. He tried to peddle the design but the company he was dealing with didn't like his terms so they just took the idea. The contingency lawyers he talked to wanted such a big slice of any payout that he didn't figure it was worth pursuing that avenue. My father didn't have enough money to fund a lawsuit and that was that. He did a bit more work after that - designed the landing gear for the DC-3 among other things.
It's worth noting that the article is talking about a lawyer patenting his own ideas. That perfectly illustrates who the patent system is set up to benefit.
- Remember that in 1940 Japan, under the guise of being neutral to China, fought their way up the Korean peninsula all the while constantly telling the Chinese to relax because all they wanted was Korea.
- But when the 38th parallel was reached, the American troops kept rolling in a fashion reminiscent to 1940. They kept moving, and they were quickly approaching the top of the peninsula. Again, China said that they would not intervene so long as the US did not enter the mainland, and the US agreed. So when American troops reached the top of the peninsula and kept on rolling, pardon the Chinese for thinking this looked a bit too much like the last time it had been invaded.
And why did, and do, the Chinese prop up North Korea? Was it so the Chinese could prevent North Koreans from fleeing North Korea?Let's see. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 took place on the outskirts of Beijing where the Japanese Army clashed with the Chinese. The Rape of Nanking started in December of 1937. The Japanese were all over China by the time 1940 came around.
The Americans didn't cross into mainland China. China said she would enter the war if we crossed the 38th. The 38th is halfway up the peninsula - nowhere near mainland China.
Like you, I don't mind the idea of the Chinese trying for the moon but, unlike you, I do mind attempting to revise history. Your attempt to paint the Americans as the agressors in the Korean War is pathetic.