Funnily enough, when I read the comic early in the morning the reference to the game was absent (The 2nd panel was not there) though the theme was the same.
Whaat?! He read the article? He even read the source documents? He even tried to understand it? He even tried to explain it to us morons who like to make knee-jerk reactions to the hyperbole headlines that is Slashdot? Who let him in? Who let him in?
What is with you being so close minded, judgmental and groupist? Guns aren't bad and repulsive. Some people are sure, but that's hardly the guns' fault. Unless you are talking about this gun
This reference may be relevant:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/umte/1998/00000002/00000002/art00006?crawler=true
"...Results from this study show that a small-scale heat engine fabricated from a low-thermal-conductivity material can be made with a length scale approaching 1 mm. Such a device would undoubtedly be composed of numerous microscale components. Below the 1-mm limit, efficiency suffers to such a degree that solid-state thermoelectric devices would become a better choice for a particular application. "
I mean, I'd never heard of this site before. The link to the site adds *nothing* to the story, except a lot of people (like me) will click on it and generate traffic.
I have a 13" macbook and I'm not happy with the build. The design is great is some ways but the case is cracking where the lid closes. Also, the LCD started to develop gray spots the first year. I had good experience with support though - they replaced the screen within one day.
I've studied and now work in the United States. I travel on an Indian passport. I've applied for visas three times and never had a problem and was always treated with courtesy. At customs I've never been treated disrespectfully, though once the person was surly. I would be too, if everyone and his brother was trying to get in and I had to sit there stamping 800 passports (About three international flights at the same time, in Dulles VA). Customs at DC airports is overworked, at Boston and Washington are friendly.
I've had to travel to Europe twice. Once to Germany and once to Denmark. The embassy staff were respectful and responsive, but it required peculiar paperwork, notably proof of health insurance during traveling including repatriation. Customs at Germany was friendly, at Denmark was surly. This year I'm going to Germany and again have to collect paperwork for the visa.
I've never really had problems anywhere, so I'm puzzled by the vitriol poured on the US border. I'm sure there is a wide range of personalities but in my experience I don't find that other countries in Europe are any better or worse.
"I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier results for fear of a copyright claim."
This statement is incorrect. You may need permission to reproduce a figure from a journal even if the paper is yours, but you can sure replot the data and you can for sure cite the data or reprint the data itself.
That's very true about the relation between personnel and software costs. But I prefer to compare software with equipment costs and these points bug me
1. A Matlab single user license with several toolboxes came to $2000 (in 2004). 2. If several people use a single user license it technically is illegal, but this is common in labs. 3. If you have a multi user license through a department the license server can ruin your day if it goes down, or the network acts up, or too many people log on 4. A licensed copy of Office for everyone in the lab? 5. A licensed copy of Acrobat for everyone? 6. A licensed copy of Illustrator for everyone?
It all starts to add up. If you are willing to be elastic on ethics (multiple use of single user license, install dept. copies of word on personal laptop etc.) it really doesn't matter. But from a principles point of view, shouldn't academics, who strive to release information free for all (since a lot of work was done using tax payer money) be ethical and use open source software.
In a way, in the old days, academics wrote their own software, used it, shared it and it was a rising tide that lifted all boats. I think we should go back to that.
Sorry. I'll get off the soapbox and stop preaching to the choir now:)
People still use Matlab, even though the combination on Python and matplotlib does just fine. People could use LyX, but they use MS word. It can't be usability, its not the number of bugs. I think its just inertia. Also, in academia, the lab pays for a copy and then it gets shared onto individual machines (even though the licensing may not allow that). So most academics are technically violating terms of use. But if you don't pay for it, you don't worry about it. But really, its coming out of our taxes, right?
That's a valid argument. To do it right, you need a randomized chart. But the assumption is that it is in your own self interest to get the proper glasses, so if you 'cheat' on the eye test you are hurting yourself pretty directly.
Hi, I too was bothered by the lack of detail. I found the following website
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/310730/plastic_circuits_make_tougher_greener_computers
And there there is a fleeting sentence:
----------------
The circuit board is a plastic sheet in which all components are placed in divots,â Thiel said. âoeThe conductor is screen-printed into a thin cover sheet which is then thermally bonded to the circuit board.
---------------
I'm guessing the contact is by pressure. So you have the tracks, and you have the components, and you press the tracks onto the components, a bit like putting an IC onto a socket.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget- they are your ancestors too!
They had this in Deus Ex hong hong, as a mechanism to prevent you from doing any shooting on that level
http://dtris.sourceforge.net/
Funnily enough, when I read the comic early in the morning the reference to the game was absent (The 2nd panel was not there) though the theme was the same.
Whaat?! He read the article? He even read the source documents? He even tried to understand it? He even tried to explain it to us morons who like to make knee-jerk reactions to the hyperbole headlines that is Slashdot? Who let him in? Who let him in?
What is with you being so close minded, judgmental and groupist? Guns aren't bad and repulsive. Some people are sure, but that's hardly the guns' fault. Unless you are talking about this gun
This reference may be relevant: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/umte/1998/00000002/00000002/art00006?crawler=true "...Results from this study show that a small-scale heat engine fabricated from a low-thermal-conductivity material can be made with a length scale approaching 1 mm. Such a device would undoubtedly be composed of numerous microscale components. Below the 1-mm limit, efficiency suffers to such a degree that solid-state thermoelectric devices would become a better choice for a particular application. "
I mean, I'd never heard of this site before. The link to the site adds *nothing* to the story, except a lot of people (like me) will click on it and generate traffic.
Whoa there, you're one step away from the original explanation for thunder and lightning.
This is missing sarcasm tags.
I have a 13" macbook and I'm not happy with the build. The design is great is some ways but the case is cracking where the lid closes. Also, the LCD started to develop gray spots the first year. I had good experience with support though - they replaced the screen within one day.
I've studied and now work in the United States. I travel on an Indian passport. I've applied for visas three times and never had a problem and was always treated with courtesy. At customs I've never been treated disrespectfully, though once the person was surly. I would be too, if everyone and his brother was trying to get in and I had to sit there stamping 800 passports (About three international flights at the same time, in Dulles VA). Customs at DC airports is overworked, at Boston and Washington are friendly.
I've had to travel to Europe twice. Once to Germany and once to Denmark. The embassy staff were respectful and responsive, but it required peculiar paperwork, notably proof of health insurance during traveling including repatriation. Customs at Germany was friendly, at Denmark was surly. This year I'm going to Germany and again have to collect paperwork for the visa.
I've never really had problems anywhere, so I'm puzzled by the vitriol poured on the US border. I'm sure there is a wide range of personalities but in my experience I don't find that other countries in Europe are any better or worse.
Integrated Circuit. If you are in a hurry/need column space say 'IC' and hope no automobile engineers are around.
"I've even heard of academics who had to redo pretty much the identical experiment because they couldn't even cite their own earlier results for fear of a copyright claim."
This statement is incorrect. You may need permission to reproduce a figure from a journal even if the paper is yours, but you can sure replot the data and you can for sure cite the data or reprint the data itself.
That's very true about the relation between personnel and software costs. But I prefer to compare software with equipment costs and these points bug me
1. A Matlab single user license with several toolboxes came to $2000 (in 2004).
2. If several people use a single user license it technically is illegal, but this is common in labs.
3. If you have a multi user license through a department the license server can ruin your day if it goes down, or the network acts up, or too many people log on
4. A licensed copy of Office for everyone in the lab?
5. A licensed copy of Acrobat for everyone?
6. A licensed copy of Illustrator for everyone?
It all starts to add up. If you are willing to be elastic on ethics (multiple use of single user license, install dept. copies of word on personal laptop etc.) it really doesn't matter. But from a principles point of view, shouldn't academics, who strive to release information free for all (since a lot of work was done using tax payer money) be ethical and use open source software.
In a way, in the old days, academics wrote their own software, used it, shared it and it was a rising tide that lifted all boats. I think we should go back to that.
Sorry. I'll get off the soapbox and stop preaching to the choir now :)
People still use Matlab, even though the combination on Python and matplotlib does just fine. People could use LyX, but they use MS word. It can't be usability, its not the number of bugs. I think its just inertia. Also, in academia, the lab pays for a copy and then it gets shared onto individual machines (even though the licensing may not allow that). So most academics are technically violating terms of use. But if you don't pay for it, you don't worry about it. But really, its coming out of our taxes, right?
Yes, that's tight. Google releasing user information to Chinese authorities is another example of this same principle.
That's a valid argument. To do it right, you need a randomized chart. But the assumption is that it is in your own self interest to get the proper glasses, so if you 'cheat' on the eye test you are hurting yourself pretty directly.
Isn't the main requirement that they be ambiguous, so that what the subject says is more related to their internal state, rather than the input?
I thought it came from 'Here's my small contribution' and the GP was merely correcting for his local currency and global inflation...
Hi, I too was bothered by the lack of detail. I found the following website http://www.techworld.com.au/article/310730/plastic_circuits_make_tougher_greener_computers And there there is a fleeting sentence: ---------------- The circuit board is a plastic sheet in which all components are placed in divots,â Thiel said. âoeThe conductor is screen-printed into a thin cover sheet which is then thermally bonded to the circuit board. --------------- I'm guessing the contact is by pressure. So you have the tracks, and you have the components, and you press the tracks onto the components, a bit like putting an IC onto a socket.
You did look where my address is, right?
I could hear the cracking of his soapbox at it crushed underneath him...
In Bengali it means 'subject'. I doubt that this has ANYTHING to do with language, but is rather an oddball effect.
Best comment I've seen so far.