And GPS, which have much smaller antennas that must communicate a greater distance than cell phones, as well as through any attenuating cloud cover. I assume people getting lost and having to turn around and drive farther because their GPS doesn't work when it's cloudy will increase the carbon emissions again.
But California especially. The "List of Chemicals as Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity" isn't because California has better scientists who 'know' more than scientists elsewhere. It's that California is so much more whacko than the other 49 states that they pass completely off-the-wall legislation that's based on even less science than is common.
By my understanding, it's just a bunch of small local monopoles. Unlike a conventional magnet which is a bunch of N-S poles aligned in the same direction, this seems like a bunch of N pole regions that will actually move within the structure. However, it seems that the crystal overall still has a net 0 magnetic field, meaning the rest of the structure would be slightly S polar. So yes, I misspoke above slightly.
Assuming the device can be turned down to a very short 'probe' pulse, that damage could be minimalized and not much worse than would normally be encountered with any moderately invasive procedure. Losing on the order of 10s of cells for accurate diagnosis of the immediate area of thousands of cells is a good step.
Personally, I'd rather the surgeon have the ability to detect and remove all of a cancer from my body with only a little bit of extra scar tissue in the surrounding areas, rather than miss some of the cancer or remove healthy organs that just looked slightly different.
No, a hard drive just flips the direction the magnetized region takes: north one way and south the other. This research showed a crystal that was a north pole but had no south pole.
I feel like I'm pointing out the elephant in the living room here, but wtf is up with a lawyer collecting unemployment checks? That is the dickish behavior. Unemployment insurance is supposed to be for people on hard times due to losing their jobs. When you make as much as a lawyer does, you should be doing something called "saving money" -- it shouldn't be much of a hardship for you, given that part-time elected officials (such as in state legislatures that don't work the full year) tend to be lawyers because they can so easily take a lot of unpaid time off from work.
Since the summary is poorly written and you didn't RTFA (of course):
She was just out of college, and this was her first law job. She worked there for 6 months and then was laid off. Unable to afford rent in NYC, she had moved and was looking for work out of state (it is legal to collect from NYC because it was her place of last employment). That's exactly who unemployment is supposed to help.
She did not own a firm, was not using this to collect money for a sabbatical, and does not have another job lined up.
Your complaints are valid issues with the system, but not for this particular person. This is probably the bigger problem: people who really do need unemployment getting disqualified for strange reasons, despite still not being employed.
Absolutely, if it would seem out of place without the ads (racing simulators, licensed professional sports games), make some money off of it.
...and please adjust the cost of the final product to the consumer accordingly.
Alternatively, (especially for games with lots of licensed content, such as the cars in racing sims) they can use that money to enable a larger amount of content without needing to charge extra for it. That definitely makes the game better.
Back to the original question, can you explain how Nvidia voluntarily stopping design of AMD chipsets is Intel's fault?:)
Easily, if producing chipsets only becomes profitable with economies of scale due to fixed costs. It might not be profitable enough to design only AMD chipsets.
It doesn't mean Intel did anything wrong (I'm not familiar on the circumstances), but that's up to the courts to decide.
Absolutely, if it would seem out of place without the ads (racing simulators, licensed professional sports games), make some money off of it. If it's a fictitious world, ficticious ads can add to the experience (GTA, Fallout 3).
King? You are going to whine about King getting the Nobel peace price?
No, I think he's making that point that the prize hasn't meant anything since the 60s, with MLK Jr being one of the last truly deserving laureates, rather than just recently going downhill. His point is that if he remembers when the peace prize meant something, he must have been old enough to care in the 60s, doubting that the GGP is 70+ and posting on Slashdot.
My guess would be that those Comcast customers who insist they don't need anti-virus and do know how to surf the Web safely are going to get unexpected notices.
My guess is that those same users will think that the ISP is obviously wrong, and will continue along their merry way, spamming the world.
Alternatively, they will attempt to fix it by clicking that little banner ad for 'free antivirus' that popped up and told them the same thing...
It raises the question of why we're spending any time at all on the moon. It can't be lived on, it's unlikely to harbor life, its geology has already been explored. Someone tell me what the point is...
Its surface geology has been explored, but not what's beneath. As for why to explore it, it's the closest heavenly body to the earth, so it's a good place to start. It's cheap and easy to get to, and a good stepping stone to future missions. Do you think the Viking or Mariner missions would have been successful if not for the Surveyor moon missions? If we ignore moon science, we make all future space missions more difficult and expensive.
If you don't think astronomy isn't important, then you must hate science. If you think the moon isn't important, you're just not thinking practically.
Of course, the reason for using a satellite impact is because it's cheaper and easier to determine if there is any water at all (which scientists aren't sure of). If there isn't, we saved ourselves a bunch of money by not sending up an expensive excavator robot. If there is, then we can determine how best to determine the geological significance, and what that means for the history of our solar system and potential future moon missions.
My apologies, I'm not as up on my Asimov as I should be. Can you point me in the right direction, both to the story I erroneously attributed to Asimov, and any similar stories by the man himself?
That said, I was not implying that the robots broke the laws, only that the robots went so far as to prevent physical harm to the humans, that they prevented the humans from acting with free-will (an inherently risky activity). The letter of the first law was not violated, from my memory.
There is a significant extra risk from robot cracking, due both to their mobility, standard expanded feature set, and the lack of attention given to their OS security.
A computer with a microphone is less dangerous because the Operating System has at least some security measures (unlike one a lightweight robot might use), computer microphones are not standard for a given computer (whereas a specific target robot's hardware will probably be known before the attack), and is limited to where the user places it (a comprimised robot would likely have some freedom of movement).
Of course, the mobility also allows for more potentially dangerous acts. Hacking grandma's computer so she can't play solitare is an inconvenience. Hacking her roomba so it knocks over her cane and causes her to fall could be potentially life-threatening.
For example, the story about robots who prevented humans from coming to harm through inefficient human governance. Since they could not, through inaction, allow humans to harm themselves, they replaced the human government with robot governors.
They, for the record, did not welcome their new robot overlords.
Considering how many people still don't like digital distribution, there still needs to be some way to put a disk on the shelf.
And you complain that this is some complex thing locked down to a certain retailer. It's not. First-sale DLC is easy to get, plug in the code in the manual and you're done. As for being exclusive for pre-order customers, that's a whole different thing entirely.
Dow has been working on these puppies for years. Not only have they put effort into making sure they're durable, they also had the goal of making them cheap and easy to install, which is another huge advantage over standard residential photovoltaics.
The "meet singles" is a little odd since I'm married, as are the "get a flat stomach" ads, for much the same reason.
Yeah, I wish the ads were more targeted for that very reason. No, I don't want to meet singles, you should know that.
The question is just how they learn these things, and if they use them for more nefarious purposes. With Facebook, I'm fine with them using the information that I gave them. I'm not fine with them using my activity outside the site to target advertising.
He really would restrict your rights and regulate the hell out of video games and the
rest of the online world that in his eyes is destroying the morals of America.
But can he really believe that?
Yes, he really does. It was rap music before it was video games, but he honestly believes they are destroying our moral framework.
I think you're missing a step. While hybrid cars, like the Prius, are cool, they're really just a gas car with their city mileage closer to highway numbers. The electric motors are generally pretty weak and the gas engine is still primarily used.
The real next step are the EREVs, like the Volt. Rather than being a gas car with help from an electric motor, it's an electric vehicle with recharging from a gas engine. Not only are they more efficient, they are just two steps away from full EVs (add larger energy storage with faster recharge, and remove the gas generator). They will also drive the development of more efficient motors and drivetrains built for the purpose. Then, once the battery technology gets there, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to get people to adopt them.
the guy who brings the guitar to the party is always much more of a tool and a loner than even the guys playing guitar hero.
Keep repeating that to yourself when the girl you wanted to get with is fucking said tool because he plays guitar. Then go back with your other buddies who aren't getting laid either and play some more Guitar Hero.
That's funny, since I do play guitar, bass, and drums. I'm just not the guy sitting in the corner noodling on his guitar being anti-social.
I also don't need to impress girls anymore, so them and said tool can bang all they want, doesn't bother me.
Well, if the software's purpose is to circumvent the copy-protection scheme, it violates the DMCA as well. The courts even recently upheld that the DMCA even makes illegal the act of circumventing copy protection systems, even if a copy is allowed by fair use.
Like I said, the law is bullshit, but it's still the current state of things. Don't blame me, I'm just the messanger.
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And GPS, which have much smaller antennas that must communicate a greater distance than cell phones, as well as through any attenuating cloud cover. I assume people getting lost and having to turn around and drive farther because their GPS doesn't work when it's cloudy will increase the carbon emissions again.
But California especially. The "List of Chemicals as Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity" isn't because California has better scientists who 'know' more than scientists elsewhere. It's that California is so much more whacko than the other 49 states that they pass completely off-the-wall legislation that's based on even less science than is common.
By my understanding, it's just a bunch of small local monopoles. Unlike a conventional magnet which is a bunch of N-S poles aligned in the same direction, this seems like a bunch of N pole regions that will actually move within the structure. However, it seems that the crystal overall still has a net 0 magnetic field, meaning the rest of the structure would be slightly S polar. So yes, I misspoke above slightly.
Assuming the device can be turned down to a very short 'probe' pulse, that damage could be minimalized and not much worse than would normally be encountered with any moderately invasive procedure. Losing on the order of 10s of cells for accurate diagnosis of the immediate area of thousands of cells is a good step.
Personally, I'd rather the surgeon have the ability to detect and remove all of a cancer from my body with only a little bit of extra scar tissue in the surrounding areas, rather than miss some of the cancer or remove healthy organs that just looked slightly different.
No, a hard drive just flips the direction the magnetized region takes: north one way and south the other. This research showed a crystal that was a north pole but had no south pole.
That doesn't mean that Java is more programmer-friendly than Objective C.
Right, it just means that more programmers are Java-friendly.
I feel like I'm pointing out the elephant in the living room here, but wtf is up with a lawyer collecting unemployment checks? That is the dickish behavior. Unemployment insurance is supposed to be for people on hard times due to losing their jobs. When you make as much as a lawyer does, you should be doing something called "saving money" -- it shouldn't be much of a hardship for you, given that part-time elected officials (such as in state legislatures that don't work the full year) tend to be lawyers because they can so easily take a lot of unpaid time off from work.
Since the summary is poorly written and you didn't RTFA (of course):
She was just out of college, and this was her first law job. She worked there for 6 months and then was laid off. Unable to afford rent in NYC, she had moved and was looking for work out of state (it is legal to collect from NYC because it was her place of last employment). That's exactly who unemployment is supposed to help.
She did not own a firm, was not using this to collect money for a sabbatical, and does not have another job lined up.
Your complaints are valid issues with the system, but not for this particular person. This is probably the bigger problem: people who really do need unemployment getting disqualified for strange reasons, despite still not being employed.
Absolutely, if it would seem out of place without the ads (racing simulators, licensed professional sports games), make some money off of it.
...and please adjust the cost of the final product to the consumer accordingly.
Alternatively, (especially for games with lots of licensed content, such as the cars in racing sims) they can use that money to enable a larger amount of content without needing to charge extra for it. That definitely makes the game better.
Back to the original question, can you explain how Nvidia voluntarily stopping design of AMD chipsets is Intel's fault? :)
Easily, if producing chipsets only becomes profitable with economies of scale due to fixed costs. It might not be profitable enough to design only AMD chipsets.
It doesn't mean Intel did anything wrong (I'm not familiar on the circumstances), but that's up to the courts to decide.
Absolutely, if it would seem out of place without the ads (racing simulators, licensed professional sports games), make some money off of it. If it's a fictitious world, ficticious ads can add to the experience (GTA, Fallout 3).
King? You are going to whine about King getting the Nobel peace price?
No, I think he's making that point that the prize hasn't meant anything since the 60s, with MLK Jr being one of the last truly deserving laureates, rather than just recently going downhill. His point is that if he remembers when the peace prize meant something, he must have been old enough to care in the 60s, doubting that the GGP is 70+ and posting on Slashdot.
My guess would be that those Comcast customers who insist they don't need anti-virus and do know how to surf the Web safely are going to get unexpected notices.
My guess is that those same users will think that the ISP is obviously wrong, and will continue along their merry way, spamming the world.
Alternatively, they will attempt to fix it by clicking that little banner ad for 'free antivirus' that popped up and told them the same thing...
Do you have stairs in your house?
Hack my robot camera and find out!
It raises the question of why we're spending any time at all on the moon. It can't be lived on, it's unlikely to harbor life, its geology has already been explored. Someone tell me what the point is...
Its surface geology has been explored, but not what's beneath. As for why to explore it, it's the closest heavenly body to the earth, so it's a good place to start. It's cheap and easy to get to, and a good stepping stone to future missions. Do you think the Viking or Mariner missions would have been successful if not for the Surveyor moon missions? If we ignore moon science, we make all future space missions more difficult and expensive.
If you don't think astronomy isn't important, then you must hate science. If you think the moon isn't important, you're just not thinking practically.
Of course, the reason for using a satellite impact is because it's cheaper and easier to determine if there is any water at all (which scientists aren't sure of). If there isn't, we saved ourselves a bunch of money by not sending up an expensive excavator robot. If there is, then we can determine how best to determine the geological significance, and what that means for the history of our solar system and potential future moon missions.
My apologies, I'm not as up on my Asimov as I should be. Can you point me in the right direction, both to the story I erroneously attributed to Asimov, and any similar stories by the man himself?
That said, I was not implying that the robots broke the laws, only that the robots went so far as to prevent physical harm to the humans, that they prevented the humans from acting with free-will (an inherently risky activity). The letter of the first law was not violated, from my memory.
There is a significant extra risk from robot cracking, due both to their mobility, standard expanded feature set, and the lack of attention given to their OS security.
A computer with a microphone is less dangerous because the Operating System has at least some security measures (unlike one a lightweight robot might use), computer microphones are not standard for a given computer (whereas a specific target robot's hardware will probably be known before the attack), and is limited to where the user places it (a comprimised robot would likely have some freedom of movement).
Of course, the mobility also allows for more potentially dangerous acts. Hacking grandma's computer so she can't play solitare is an inconvenience. Hacking her roomba so it knocks over her cane and causes her to fall could be potentially life-threatening.
How has it taken so long for this to get modded into oblivion? And me without points...
For example, the story about robots who prevented humans from coming to harm through inefficient human governance. Since they could not, through inaction, allow humans to harm themselves, they replaced the human government with robot governors.
They, for the record, did not welcome their new robot overlords.
Considering how many people still don't like digital distribution, there still needs to be some way to put a disk on the shelf.
And you complain that this is some complex thing locked down to a certain retailer. It's not. First-sale DLC is easy to get, plug in the code in the manual and you're done. As for being exclusive for pre-order customers, that's a whole different thing entirely.
Dow has been working on these puppies for years. Not only have they put effort into making sure they're durable, they also had the goal of making them cheap and easy to install, which is another huge advantage over standard residential photovoltaics.
The "meet singles" is a little odd since I'm married, as are the "get a flat stomach" ads, for much the same reason.
Yeah, I wish the ads were more targeted for that very reason. No, I don't want to meet singles, you should know that.
The question is just how they learn these things, and if they use them for more nefarious purposes. With Facebook, I'm fine with them using the information that I gave them. I'm not fine with them using my activity outside the site to target advertising.
He really would restrict your rights and regulate the hell out of video games and the rest of the online world that in his eyes is destroying the morals of America.
But can he really believe that?
Yes, he really does. It was rap music before it was video games, but he honestly believes they are destroying our moral framework.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
I think you're missing a step. While hybrid cars, like the Prius, are cool, they're really just a gas car with their city mileage closer to highway numbers. The electric motors are generally pretty weak and the gas engine is still primarily used.
The real next step are the EREVs, like the Volt. Rather than being a gas car with help from an electric motor, it's an electric vehicle with recharging from a gas engine. Not only are they more efficient, they are just two steps away from full EVs (add larger energy storage with faster recharge, and remove the gas generator). They will also drive the development of more efficient motors and drivetrains built for the purpose. Then, once the battery technology gets there, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to get people to adopt them.
the guy who brings the guitar to the party is always much more of a tool and a loner than even the guys playing guitar hero.
Keep repeating that to yourself when the girl you wanted to get with is fucking said tool because he plays guitar. Then go back with your other buddies who aren't getting laid either and play some more Guitar Hero.
That's funny, since I do play guitar, bass, and drums. I'm just not the guy sitting in the corner noodling on his guitar being anti-social.
I also don't need to impress girls anymore, so them and said tool can bang all they want, doesn't bother me.
Well, if the software's purpose is to circumvent the copy-protection scheme, it violates the DMCA as well. The courts even recently upheld that the DMCA even makes illegal the act of circumventing copy protection systems, even if a copy is allowed by fair use.
Like I said, the law is bullshit, but it's still the current state of things. Don't blame me, I'm just the messanger.