Power is voltage times current (amperage)
P = I*V A transformer can alter the voltage (and thus current) to any desired level (of course it cannot up the power). A transformer is nearly 100% efficient at this.
60% does sound like an awful lot. I wonder what sort of quality of life that buys you. When I was living in California, my rent chewed up about 60% of my (after tax) paycheck. (so, ~30% tax, ~5% retirement, 42% rent, 23% of paycheck for food, utilities and the rest) It makes me wonder if the invisible hand of cost of living/taxation is effectively a constant. What does the tax buy me? A social security check whos total is guaranteed not to approach the amount put into it, poorly implemented social programs (why educate when the morphene of money will placate those with crappy fortunes), a wasteful war on drugs (and on other ills that I apparently cannot protect my children from) and a foreign policy I strongly disagree with.
It's an interesting graph, but I wouldn't say that it was a relationship between quality of care and spending. I think it more points out the general health of the citizenry. Are Americans so unhealthy on average that the amount spent really is required, or is it that US doctors like to buy the latest gee-wiz gadgets or what?
Yes, this is off topic but is still an interesting little discussion.
a lot of people are not willing to pay anything for it. Thus the pirating. I suppose the true value is the average of what's payed for any copies of it.
The major difference is that the airwaves are not privately owned but the ISPs are. The obstacle is that cable would be exempt from the ban on political ads. Do those run on cable (not a TV watcher, so really don't know).
People are going to be more interested in each other's dirty laundry than in the 1 a billion calls that turns out to be terrorist related. What are you *thinking*? Statistically, this wiretapping is going to be astronomically ineffective at doing its perported 'job'.
gun control did not start out a liberal/conservative thing.
The first instances of gun control were the banning of firearms to slaves. Gun control rolled on after the civil war. A year after the war ended, Alabama put a total ban of firearms to blacks. Laws were passed in other southern states banning 'cheap' handguns (likely the only kinds that most blacks at the time could afford).
The gun control act of 1968 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act) was signed by LBJ (after the JFK and MLK assassinations), so perhaps one could argue that modern gun control started with liberals.
In 10 years of java (and other) programming I've never seen anything put such a damper on the joy of programming quite like the over-abstraction fad and J2EE.
Anything that bills itself a "solution" without mentioning a _specific_ problem is a horse pucky Himalaya.
Interesting question from an anonymous poster. Some possibilities : recorded interviews, photos, video. Text is more problematic.
There is going to be some uncertainty to anything, less with a famous newscaster and more with a stragner. How many people take a stranger's story for the truth if it sounds plausable? If 100 strangers claim to be eye-witnesses and tell about the same story, it could be a conspiracy.
The real utility of anonymous journalism is to direct attention to a particular story rather than spread some gospel.
So, programmers have a choice between writing glue layers between different general applications, or writing a specialized application from scratch? Writing glue layers is not necessarily easier or less time consuming.
The best solutions to specific problems are going to be custom made, at least for a while.
they are in danger of losing their protections under trademark law.
What is protected? The ability to name things 'pod'. That is useful for a certain amount of time an no longer.
You imply the law and the name 'pod' is what is important to Apple. What is important to Apple is selling their products, and, ultimately making money. How people spend their money and what they think is more important here than the law. If you think 'lawsuit' when you hear pod, rather than music players and downloading stuff from iTunes, Apple's ass is bitten.
The whole world is not like software design. Even if I gave you a clear description of how to manufacture 300 layer thin film optical features you would not be able to do it without a few years of work. You need highly specialized and expensive equipment, exotic materials and a good deal of energy. It also helps to have expertise and experience. You would have to know what sorts of weather may adversly affect the process.
The point of the article is that companies keep their patents completely secret until the day they are filed. What IBM is doing is sharing patent findings of work in progress of ideas it wishes to patent but does not yet have patented.
Apple may be defending against trademark dilution.
From Wikipedia:
A trademark is diluted when the use of similar or identical trademarks in other non-competing markets means that the trademark in and of itself will lose its capacity to signify a single source. In other words, unlike ordinary trademark law, dilution protection extends to trademark uses that do not confuse consumers regarding who has made a product. Instead, dilution protection law aims to protect sufficiently strong trademarks from losing their singular association in the public mind with a particular product, perhaps imagined if the trademark were to be encountered independently of any product (e.g., just the word Pepsi spoken, or on a billboard).
While they may be defending against that, one term 'podcasting' is no threat to their xPod trademark. Podcasting is already part of the public consciousness. When I hear it, I don't actually think of Apple. Do you? This is a pr blunder and is going to bite them in the ass.
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Power is voltage times current (amperage)
P = I*V
A transformer can alter the voltage (and thus current) to any desired level (of course it cannot up the power).
A transformer is nearly 100% efficient at this.
60% does sound like an awful lot. I wonder what sort of quality of life that buys you. When I was living in California, my rent chewed up about 60% of my (after tax) paycheck. (so, ~30% tax, ~5% retirement, 42% rent, 23% of paycheck for food, utilities and the rest) It makes me wonder if the invisible hand of cost of living/taxation is effectively a constant. What does the tax buy me? A social security check whos total is guaranteed not to approach the amount put into it, poorly implemented social programs (why educate when the morphene of money will placate those with crappy fortunes), a wasteful war on drugs (and on other ills that I apparently cannot protect my children from) and a foreign policy I strongly disagree with.
I'd be curious to hear what you get in Sweden.
If you think you are paying more for health care than the US, you would be wrong, however :
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php
It's an interesting graph, but I wouldn't say that it was a relationship between quality of care and spending. I think it more points out the general health of the citizenry. Are Americans so unhealthy on average that the amount spent really is required, or is it that US doctors like to buy the latest gee-wiz gadgets or what?
Yes, this is off topic but is still an interesting little discussion.
nuff said
If you want to really succeed, you have to take risks.
Anyone suing U-Tube would be taking the risk of losing the lawsuit and setting a precident.
a lot of people are not willing to pay anything for it. Thus the pirating. I suppose the true value is the average of what's payed for any copies of it.
you silly person!
Maybe it is time to examine the absurdity of a mix of sounds being worth millions of dollars.
and its brown?
*dives for cover*
Speaking of thread happy OS's, how about good ol' BeOS? It was designed from the ground up to be run with multiple processors and the more the better.
Should dig that one back up und update the old batmobile.
The major difference is that the airwaves are not privately owned but the ISPs are.
The obstacle is that cable would be exempt from the ban on political ads. Do those run on cable (not a TV watcher, so really don't know).
Theoretically, the public does own the airwaves, and the airwaves are all ready censored. It would encourage those interested to actually read.
People are going to be more interested in each other's dirty laundry than in the 1 a billion calls that turns out to be terrorist related. What are you *thinking*? Statistically, this wiretapping is going to be astronomically ineffective at doing its perported 'job'.
gun control did not start out a liberal/conservative thing.
The first instances of gun control were the banning of firearms to slaves. Gun control rolled on after the civil war. A year after the war ended, Alabama put a total ban of firearms to blacks. Laws were passed in other southern states banning 'cheap' handguns (likely the only kinds that most blacks at the time could afford).
The gun control act of 1968 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act) was signed by LBJ (after the JFK and MLK assassinations), so perhaps one could argue that modern gun control started with liberals.
In 10 years of java (and other) programming I've never seen anything put such a damper on the joy of programming quite like the over-abstraction fad and J2EE.
Anything that bills itself a "solution" without mentioning a _specific_ problem is a horse pucky Himalaya.
They are picky about who they hire. I've heard the interview process can be as grueling as exam days.
I wonder if they are quick to pull the rug out from people who don't cut it.
Their hiring staff must be pretty perceptive.
Interesting question from an anonymous poster. Some possibilities : recorded interviews, photos, video. Text is more problematic.
There is going to be some uncertainty to anything, less with a famous newscaster and more with a stragner. How many people take a stranger's story for the truth if it sounds plausable? If 100 strangers claim to be eye-witnesses and tell about the same story, it could be a conspiracy.
The real utility of anonymous journalism is to direct attention to a particular story rather than spread some gospel.
The above is not flame bait. Please mod back up to normal. Maybe it was modded so as a joke about oppresion? I dunno..
So, programmers have a choice between writing glue layers between different general applications, or writing a specialized application from scratch? Writing glue layers is not necessarily easier or less time consuming.
The best solutions to specific problems are going to be custom made, at least for a while.
If there are no bugs for the immune system to take potshots at, it starts attacking the body. It also gets out of practice attacking bugs.
woof!
So the next time I came in with a snack, I made sure it was crackers with limburger cheese, and there was enough for the whole class.
What is protected? The ability to name things 'pod'. That is useful for a certain amount of time an no longer.
You imply the law and the name 'pod' is what is important to Apple. What is important to Apple is selling their products, and, ultimately making money. How people spend their money and what they think is more important here than the law. If you think 'lawsuit' when you hear pod, rather than music players and downloading stuff from iTunes, Apple's ass is bitten.
The whole world is not like software design. Even if I gave you a clear description of how to manufacture 300 layer thin film optical features you would not be able to do it without a few years of work. You need highly specialized and expensive equipment, exotic materials and a good deal of energy. It also helps to have expertise and experience. You would have to know what sorts of weather may adversly affect the process.
The point of the article is that companies keep their patents completely secret until the day they are filed. What IBM is doing is sharing patent findings of work in progress of ideas it wishes to patent but does not yet have patented .
From Wikipedia:
While they may be defending against that, one term 'podcasting' is no threat to their xPod trademark. Podcasting is already part of the public consciousness. When I hear it, I don't actually think of Apple. Do you? This is a pr blunder and is going to bite them in the ass.