gnuman99 writes "A UCLA collaboration (Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski) appear to have developed a fusion device powered by a Pentium, a type of silicon chip used in personal computers to generate heat. When charge is applied, such a chip produces a large thermal gradient on its surface. The UCLA researchers placed a Pentium-based webserver so that one side touched a website called Slashdot. A tiny CAT-5 cable is then connected to the internet. When the website about fusion is visited by thousands of geeks at once, a very large large load is produced on the server, ~25 billion hits per hour. This traffic volume is so high that it strips the heavier "one" bits in the packets from the "zeroes". The ionized packets are then accelerated by this field towards the central processing unit (CPU). They collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target. A measurement of almost 900 Kelvin was taken by an observer. This is way higher than the background! Although the amount of energy produced in this initial experiment was miniscule (~1E-8 jules), this technology could be used on things like Microsoft's website. There are pictures and movies on the UCLA's physics site contributing to the problem." Reader richmlpdx adds a link to coverage at MSNBC, in hopes that he can slashdot them too.
Look - it's a sentence with a single apostrophe, all its own. If "bloggers" (or Slashdot) want to ever be taken seriously, the basic rules of English grammar are going to have to apply. You guys would never last a second on Wikipedia or E2....and yes, I know you wrote E2.
Once the NPOESS constellation of weather and climate satellites are launched (starting in 2008), anyone with a field terminal and a one-meter dish can listen in to weather data. Furthermore, anyone can take the data and format it in JPG or GIF and post it to a website, RSS feed, or what-have-you.
Don't have the cash to buy a field terminal? That's okay, you should be able to build your own from a relatively powerful Linux box, a COTS receiver, and a one-or-two-meter dish. You can FOIA the algorithms and write an open source client.
I never think that Penny Arcade comics are funny, but often still laugh at User Friendly.
You've got a lot of nerve saying that out loud, but some people here might actually think you're serious. Next time you want to start a flame-war, play it a little more broadly, and maybe you'll get some people really interested. Try something like this:
"Star Trek is a waste of screen time and latex ears... but I love the revolutionary science fiction stories in Lucas' Star Wars series, especially the newer ones."
The relevant text of the Senate Bill amendment reads as follows (bolding mine):
(a) Criminal Infringement-
(1) IN GENERAL- Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the infringement was committed--
(A) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
(C) by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution.
(2) EVIDENCE - For purposes of this subsection, evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement of a copyright.
(3) DEFINITION - In this subsection, the term `work being prepared for commercial distribution' means--
(A) a computer program, a musical work, a motion picture or other audiovisual work, or a sound recording, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution-- (i) the copyright owner has a reasonable expectation of commercial distribution; and
(ii) the copies or phonorecords of the work have not been commercially distributed; or
(B) a motion picture, if, at the time of unauthorized distribution, the motion picture--
(i) has been made available for viewing in a motion picture exhibition facility; and
(ii) has not been made available in copies for sale to the general public in the United States in a format intended to permit viewing outside a motion picture exhibition facility.'.
So, giving your own works away for free is still okay. Once something comes out on DVD, it's apparently okay to share it (or else that's covered under a different law). And of course, right up front, there's yet another anti-piracy statute. I wonder how many different sections of the law make this particular flavor of piracy a crime?
Interesting idea, but realize that this law only covers material that hasn't been released yet. Not that it makes the law any better, just that it doesn't cover normal file-sharing. Only file leaking.
Of course, you read the article, so you already knew that, right?
Most of us find it Easier to Read sentences that don't Have random Words capitalized in them. I personally Don't Give a rat's Butt, but then I'm Funny Like that.
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This is how Southwest Airlines keeps their costs low, too. They fly only Boeing 737 aircraft, which means that
- pilot training - air crew training - ground crew training - parts inventories - maintenance costs - ticketing software and printing
and lots of other major expenses are pared down to the bare minimum. Even if Airbus were to give away airframes to Southwest, Southwest wouldn't fly them, because the cost to use the aircraft would simply be too high.
I'm almost certain that they're not paid a "wage" but rather a "salary". Salaried employees don't necessarily work 40 hour weeks, and they're usually on contract.
If you think about how they're paid it makes a little more sense. CEOs should get paid less than the value they add to the company. If the two men in question owned all of the stock in the company, and took no salary, they'd be earning exactly as much value as they added (how the stock would be bought and sold on the free market if they held it all is an exercise for the reader). Given that they hold less than 100% of the stock, and assuming the stock reflects the approximate value of the company (bad assumption but let's work with it), they have made their own success contingent on that of the company.
That's a real motivator.
Also, for those of you looking for stock tips, these guys would not announce this move now unless their earnings report on the 22d is going to be good news.
1. Buy GOOG Monday. 2. Sell GOOG a month from now. 3. Profit!
I think he was pretty clear about calling it a rant. If you're going to write journalism about the web -- real investigative journalism -- you can't be embroiled in the conflict yourself, as that hardware reviewer clearly is. And even though he didn't name any names, he pretty clearly identified Anandtech and a few other sites.
It's not worth the price of the metal to extract it yet, but just this year, the price of industrial titanium has doubled as Chinese demand for it has skyrocketed.
The case doesn't look cut-and-dried, but only because the article doesn't mention whether the employees actually signed an employment contract, or whether the contract was between HP and the hiring company.
It seems to me that the status quo was in accordance with the terms of the contract -- if those terms were not equitable, then the workers shouldn't have signed up to work under its conditions. If the terms weren't equitable, but the workers really wanted the work... then I guess the terms were equitable enough.
As for expectations vs. pay, fair doesn't enter into it. If I hire ten people to work for me for $100/hr., and another ten people to work for me for $50/hr., and levy the same requirements on them, then the second group may be upset... but they were the ones who agreed to the deal. If they don't like it, they can quit, and I'll find someone else.
Speaking of which, I've got several openings at my company, and we pay just under $50/hr. Anyone interested?
It can't work any worse than this sticker does -- maybe if you put the fuel efficiency sticker on your battery, and the battery sticker on your fuel tank?
Ionizing energy creates sound waves with particle-stripping Gauss fields! It sounds cool, so it must work.
In some DoD fields, it is routine for an analyst to be involved in several short-term projects and one or two long-term "pet projects". Time is generally dedicated to whatever you're most interested in that day, or whichever project has become hottest in the eyes of your boss. If the boss doesn't have a priority -- which is often! -- then you get to spend as much of your time as the mission permits (sometimes the entire work day) on pet projects. The boss will occasionally come around and ask "so what are you working on?" but other than that, it's highly discretionary.
For me, the experience was enjoyable because I'm self-motivated, but I also know lots of junior officers who were bored -- their loss!
Article 5. Where in the territory of a Party to the conflict, the latter is satisfied that an individual protected person is definitely suspected of or engaged in activities hostile to the security of the State, such individual person shall not be entitled to claim such rights and privileges under the present Convention as would, if exercised in the favour of such individual person, be prejudicial to the security of such State.
Where in occupied territory an individual protected person is detained as a spy or saboteur, or as a person under definite suspicion of activity hostile to the security of the Occupying Power, such person shall, in those cases where absolute military security so requires, be regarded as having forfeited rights of communication under the present Convention.
(HOWEVER)
In each case, such persons shall nevertheless be treated with humanity and, in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed by the present Convention. They shall also be granted the full rights and privileges of a protected person under the present Convention at the earliest date consistent with security of State or Occupying Power as case may be.
(emphasis mine)
It appears that the State gets to decide when to give them rights, but is obligated to give them their Geneva Convention rights, regardless of whether they're lawful soliders of a signatory nation.
The word "physically" is overused, and you've done it here. To "physically tell" a phone something would be talking to it. You mean you have to command the phone via physical keystrokes.
I've had people tell me to "physically click" on an icon, and that a drag-and-drop will "physically copy" a file from one folder to another on the same hard drive.
Try to keep track of which verbs can and can't happen physically before overusing the word. You'll appear physically smarter.
Slashdot Mirror
gnuman99 writes "A UCLA collaboration (Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski) appear to have developed a fusion device powered by a Pentium, a type of silicon chip used in personal computers to generate heat. When charge is applied, such a chip produces a large thermal gradient on its surface. The UCLA researchers placed a Pentium-based webserver so that one side touched a website called Slashdot. A tiny CAT-5 cable is then connected to the internet. When the website about fusion is visited by thousands of geeks at once, a very large large load is produced on the server, ~25 billion hits per hour. This traffic volume is so high that it strips the heavier "one" bits in the packets from the "zeroes". The ionized packets are then accelerated by this field towards the central processing unit (CPU). They collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target. A measurement of almost 900 Kelvin was taken by an observer. This is way higher than the background! Although the amount of energy produced in this initial experiment was miniscule (~1E-8 jules), this technology could be used on things like Microsoft's website. There are pictures and movies on the UCLA's physics site contributing to the problem." Reader richmlpdx adds a link to coverage at MSNBC, in hopes that he can slashdot them too.
Look - it's a sentence with a single apostrophe, all its own. If "bloggers" (or Slashdot) want to ever be taken seriously, the basic rules of English grammar are going to have to apply. You guys would never last a second on Wikipedia or E2. ...and yes, I know you wrote E2.
Once the NPOESS constellation of weather and climate satellites are launched (starting in 2008), anyone with a field terminal and a one-meter dish can listen in to weather data. Furthermore, anyone can take the data and format it in JPG or GIF and post it to a website, RSS feed, or what-have-you.
Don't have the cash to buy a field terminal? That's okay, you should be able to build your own from a relatively powerful Linux box, a COTS receiver, and a one-or-two-meter dish. You can FOIA the algorithms and write an open source client.
I never think that Penny Arcade comics are funny, but often still laugh at User Friendly.
You've got a lot of nerve saying that out loud, but some people here might actually think you're serious. Next time you want to start a flame-war, play it a little more broadly, and maybe you'll get some people really interested. Try something like this:
"Star Trek is a waste of screen time and latex ears... but I love the revolutionary science fiction stories in Lucas' Star Wars series, especially the newer ones."
Interesting idea, but realize that this law only covers material that hasn't been released yet. Not that it makes the law any better, just that it doesn't cover normal file-sharing. Only file leaking.
Of course, you read the article, so you already knew that, right?
CopyRIGHT. Arrr, Eye, Gee, Aitch, Tee. RIGHT.
We're talking about your RIGHTS. Not your WRITINGS.
ARSE.
I think you meant "TMI" and not "TM".
Dude, you are one sick puppy.
I think you mean a sacred cow.
A "fatted calf" is fattened up because it's about to be slaughtered and eaten. A "sacred cow" is in no such danger.
Most of us find it Easier to Read sentences that don't Have random Words capitalized in them. I personally Don't Give a rat's Butt, but then I'm Funny Like that.
This is how Southwest Airlines keeps their costs low, too. They fly only Boeing 737 aircraft, which means that
- pilot training
- air crew training
- ground crew training
- parts inventories
- maintenance costs
- ticketing software and printing
and lots of other major expenses are pared down to the bare minimum. Even if Airbus were to give away airframes to Southwest, Southwest wouldn't fly them, because the cost to use the aircraft would simply be too high.
I'm almost certain that they're not paid a "wage" but rather a "salary". Salaried employees don't necessarily work 40 hour weeks, and they're usually on contract.
If you think about how they're paid it makes a little more sense. CEOs should get paid less than the value they add to the company. If the two men in question owned all of the stock in the company, and took no salary, they'd be earning exactly as much value as they added (how the stock would be bought and sold on the free market if they held it all is an exercise for the reader). Given that they hold less than 100% of the stock, and assuming the stock reflects the approximate value of the company (bad assumption but let's work with it), they have made their own success contingent on that of the company.
That's a real motivator.
Also, for those of you looking for stock tips, these guys would not announce this move now unless their earnings report on the 22d is going to be good news.
1. Buy GOOG Monday.
2. Sell GOOG a month from now.
3. Profit!
I think he was pretty clear about calling it a rant. If you're going to write journalism about the web -- real investigative journalism -- you can't be embroiled in the conflict yourself, as that hardware reviewer clearly is. And even though he didn't name any names, he pretty clearly identified Anandtech and a few other sites.
Those Australian papers always distort the truth. The distinguished Senator from New York clearly said "color."
It's not worth the price of the metal to extract it yet, but just this year, the price of industrial titanium has doubled as Chinese demand for it has skyrocketed.
...that which can be attributed to incompetence.
-R.J. Hanlon
The case doesn't look cut-and-dried, but only because the article doesn't mention whether the employees actually signed an employment contract, or whether the contract was between HP and the hiring company.
It seems to me that the status quo was in accordance with the terms of the contract -- if those terms were not equitable, then the workers shouldn't have signed up to work under its conditions. If the terms weren't equitable, but the workers really wanted the work... then I guess the terms were equitable enough.
As for expectations vs. pay, fair doesn't enter into it. If I hire ten people to work for me for $100/hr., and another ten people to work for me for $50/hr., and levy the same requirements on them, then the second group may be upset... but they were the ones who agreed to the deal. If they don't like it, they can quit, and I'll find someone else.
Speaking of which, I've got several openings at my company, and we pay just under $50/hr. Anyone interested?
It can't work any worse than this sticker does -- maybe if you put the fuel efficiency sticker on your battery, and the battery sticker on your fuel tank?
Ionizing energy creates sound waves with particle-stripping Gauss fields! It sounds cool, so it must work.
Plane Ticket to Germany: $750
Internet Access in the Air: $30
GMail Account: Free
Having Slashdot publish your story before you land:
Priceless.
The best things in life are free; for everything else, there's someone stealing your slogan.
In Soviet prequels, Natalie Portman... ah... nope, I got nothing.
He's dead, Jim.
Now come over here and help me squeeze harder on this stone. I just can't get any damn blood out of it.
In some DoD fields, it is routine for an analyst to be involved in several short-term projects and one or two long-term "pet projects". Time is generally dedicated to whatever you're most interested in that day, or whichever project has become hottest in the eyes of your boss. If the boss doesn't have a priority -- which is often! -- then you get to spend as much of your time as the mission permits (sometimes the entire work day) on pet projects. The boss will occasionally come around and ask "so what are you working on?" but other than that, it's highly discretionary.
For me, the experience was enjoyable because I'm self-motivated, but I also know lots of junior officers who were bored -- their loss!
So, how well is that working out for ya?
--
(emphasis mine)
It appears that the State gets to decide when to give them rights, but is obligated to give them their Geneva Convention rights, regardless of whether they're lawful soliders of a signatory nation.
The word "physically" is overused, and you've done it here. To "physically tell" a phone something would be talking to it. You mean you have to command the phone via physical keystrokes.
I've had people tell me to "physically click" on an icon, and that a drag-and-drop will "physically copy" a file from one folder to another on the same hard drive.
Try to keep track of which verbs can and can't happen physically before overusing the word. You'll appear physically smarter.