Read the article. Yes, you do get rewarded for being healthy. They discount the employee-paid portion of health care premiums if you elect to take, and pass, various physical tests. Eg. nonsmokers pay $312 less annually than smokers.
Why should wealth be taxed, aside from the income it might generate? I see this '% of wealth' figure mentioned often, but I never see an explanation as to why income taxes should depend on wealth.
We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons travelling molecular distances, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us. -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
Now I just need room temperature superconductors to build my gatling laser speeders.
Can't you just download your bn.com-purchased books from the "My NOOK Library" section of their site? I don't have a Nook, but I do purchase eBooks from Barnes&Noble, and that is how I retrieve them.
Of course, then I have to decrypt their files (I use a pair of python scripts), load them into Calibre (or any epub reader), and then convert them to the format I want. It would be much simpler if they came without DRM.
This isn't very surprising, given that similar things existed for StarCraft 1. Namely, "Evolution Forge". It is the first successful implementation for SC2 that I've heard of, though.
However, through exploring SC1 build orders with Evolution Forge, I found that the mass of players manage to replicate the best build orders. I think this will likely be the case for SC2 as well - many man-years (or perhaps even man-centuries) have already gone into tweaking SC2 build orders, and human-tweaked schemes can be optimized for both speed and adaptability.
It wouldn't deal with cards unless it could grip them by the end. It also can't deal with objects larger than about half it's size. From the original paper:
The only objects that could not be gripped were those in which the gripper membrane could not reach sufficiently around the sides, e.g., for hemispheres larger than about half the size of the gripper or for thin disks lying flat, or for very soft objects like cotton balls.
It's not actually a vacuum picker: the gripping comes mostly from the change between unpacked and tightly packed granules inside the bag, somewhat like a non-Newtonian fluid. The idea is that the bag forms around an edge or partial circumference and then tightens enough to pick it up. The original paper's abstract describes it better than the sciencemag article about it:
Individual fingers are replaced by a single mass of granular material that, when pressed onto a target object, flows around it and conforms to its shape. Upon application of a vacuum the granular material contracts and hardens quickly to pinch and hold the object without requiring sensory feedback. We find that volume changes of less than 0.5% suffice to grip objects reliably and hold them with forces exceeding many times their weight. We show that the operating principle is the ability of granular materials to transition between an unjammed, deformable state and a jammed state with solid-like rigidity.
There is sometimes an additional suction force assisting the gripper, but this is a suction-cup type action, not a vacuum pump action. The involved forces, from page two of the paper:
We find that this strength is due to three mechanisms, all controlled by jamming, that can contribute to the gripping process: geometric constraints from interlocking between gripper and object surfaces, static friction from normal stresses at contact, and an additional suction effect, if the gripper membrane can seal off a portion of the object’s surface.
He already gave his deposition in August. It seems that he is simply asking the question here because he is curious. IANAL and have no idea if that can affect the use of it in the future, though.
From the blog:
After giving my deposition, I've thought deeply about what happened in wireless and Linux from 1998 forward, and done a bit of independent research. I figure, maybe, by publishing what I know so far, more of the history and prior art behind the "embedding Linux in a wireless router" idea will come to light, and head off the second patent at the pass.
Also note that he's asking for different examples, not about the example that he is the source of.
Shouldn't this patent have expired last week? It was filed in Feb. 1990, and issued October 5th 1993. 17 years from issuance or 20 from filing, whichever is greater, would be October 5th 2010.
I've not needed to replace a single CFL since I changed out all the lightbulbs with them when moving in to my current apartment 4 years ago. Perhaps your power supply is dirty? I hear bad things about CFLs, but the cheap ones I purchased were the best lighting investment I've ever made.
No, it's actually negative temperature. It can occur in systems that have a limit to their possible entropy (number of configurations), where high temperature (simplified: disorder) leads to an equal population of states.
An example would be excited vs. unexcited states of atoms in a lasing medium - a finite number of states with a finite number of configurations means a finite maximum entropy. If one were to heat it towards infinite temperature, the states would become equally populated (maximum possible disorder, or number of configurations). During lasing operation, though, most of the states would be in the higher energy configuration, thus the overall system would be "hotter" (more energetic) than infinite temperature, but actually have less entropy. This is negative temperature; the scale wraps around because of the way temperature is defined with relation to the energy and entropy of a system.
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Blame the French revolution for creating a rift by coopting scientific rhetoric to fight the Catholic royalists.
I always disappoint myself by first reading it as "retinal display" and then remembering that's not what it is :(
Bording is clearly referring to the fans needing to be replaced, not the thermoelectric elements themselves.
Do you think oil extraction crews work for free, with equipment they make themselves in their unpaid time?
He installed SE at 5:45.
Read the article. Yes, you do get rewarded for being healthy. They discount the employee-paid portion of health care premiums if you elect to take, and pass, various physical tests. Eg. nonsmokers pay $312 less annually than smokers.
Why should wealth be taxed, aside from the income it might generate? I see this '% of wealth' figure mentioned often, but I never see an explanation as to why income taxes should depend on wealth.
Perhaps if you used the correct bigrams instead of uncommon contractions of them.
They obviou'sly work for the greengrocer's guild.
We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons travelling molecular distances, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us.
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
Now I just need room temperature superconductors to build my gatling laser speeders.
Can't you just download your bn.com-purchased books from the "My NOOK Library" section of their site? I don't have a Nook, but I do purchase eBooks from Barnes&Noble, and that is how I retrieve them.
Of course, then I have to decrypt their files (I use a pair of python scripts), load them into Calibre (or any epub reader), and then convert them to the format I want. It would be much simpler if they came without DRM.
The real and original non-smartphone is the hard wired land line, with a rotary dial.
You can always convert a rotary phone to a cell phone (or buy it if you're lazy).
This isn't very surprising, given that similar things existed for StarCraft 1. Namely, "Evolution Forge". It is the first successful implementation for SC2 that I've heard of, though.
However, through exploring SC1 build orders with Evolution Forge, I found that the mass of players manage to replicate the best build orders. I think this will likely be the case for SC2 as well - many man-years (or perhaps even man-centuries) have already gone into tweaking SC2 build orders, and human-tweaked schemes can be optimized for both speed and adaptability.
It wouldn't deal with cards unless it could grip them by the end. It also can't deal with objects larger than about half it's size. From the original paper:
The only objects that could not be gripped were those in which the gripper membrane could not reach sufficiently around the sides, e.g., for hemispheres larger than about half the size of the gripper or for thin disks lying flat, or for very soft objects like cotton balls.
It's not actually a vacuum picker: the gripping comes mostly from the change between unpacked and tightly packed granules inside the bag, somewhat like a non-Newtonian fluid. The idea is that the bag forms around an edge or partial circumference and then tightens enough to pick it up. The original paper's abstract describes it better than the sciencemag article about it:
Individual fingers are replaced by a single mass of granular material that, when pressed onto a target object, flows around it and conforms to its shape. Upon application of a vacuum the granular material contracts and hardens quickly to pinch and hold the object without requiring sensory feedback. We find that volume changes of less than 0.5% suffice to grip objects reliably and hold them with forces exceeding many times their weight. We show that the operating principle is the ability of granular materials to transition between an unjammed, deformable state and a jammed state with solid-like rigidity.
There is sometimes an additional suction force assisting the gripper, but this is a suction-cup type action, not a vacuum pump action. The involved forces, from page two of the paper:
We find that this strength is due to three mechanisms, all controlled by jamming, that can contribute to the gripping process: geometric constraints from interlocking between gripper and object surfaces, static friction from normal stresses at contact, and an additional suction effect, if the gripper membrane can seal off a portion of the object’s surface.
Reduce the categories to an orthogonal basis set and reorganize everything!
Yes.
He already gave his deposition in August. It seems that he is simply asking the question here because he is curious. IANAL and have no idea if that can affect the use of it in the future, though.
From the blog:
After giving my deposition, I've thought deeply about what happened in wireless and Linux from 1998 forward, and done a bit of independent research. I figure, maybe, by publishing what I know so far, more of the history and prior art behind the "embedding Linux in a wireless router" idea will come to light, and head off the second patent at the pass.
Also note that he's asking for different examples, not about the example that he is the source of.
Shouldn't this patent have expired last week? It was filed in Feb. 1990, and issued October 5th 1993. 17 years from issuance or 20 from filing, whichever is greater, would be October 5th 2010.
I hear geocaching is very popular there.
in fact, you can build an atmel 328 chip with a 16mhz resonator, 1 or 2 resistors, 1 or 2 caps and some wire. its REALLY that trivial.
You have a goldmine there - I'm sure Atmel would pay a lot to be able to duplicate their IC functionality with a few discrete components!
I've not needed to replace a single CFL since I changed out all the lightbulbs with them when moving in to my current apartment 4 years ago. Perhaps your power supply is dirty? I hear bad things about CFLs, but the cheap ones I purchased were the best lighting investment I've ever made.
I would like to have a beta level sim of myself! I don't think it's particularly creepy, except for continuing to use it after death.
No, it's actually negative temperature. It can occur in systems that have a limit to their possible entropy (number of configurations), where high temperature (simplified: disorder) leads to an equal population of states.
An example would be excited vs. unexcited states of atoms in a lasing medium - a finite number of states with a finite number of configurations means a finite maximum entropy. If one were to heat it towards infinite temperature, the states would become equally populated (maximum possible disorder, or number of configurations). During lasing operation, though, most of the states would be in the higher energy configuration, thus the overall system would be "hotter" (more energetic) than infinite temperature, but actually have less entropy. This is negative temperature; the scale wraps around because of the way temperature is defined with relation to the energy and entropy of a system.
While not quite a game, astronomers already take advantage of semiautomated human pattern recognition: http://www.galaxyzoo.org/