Or more simply, a shadow is not an object, thus no need to go further with physical analysis. We see it as an object because areas which maintain similar patterns of color, perhaps moving, are perceived as objects. Same way we perceive the mouse cursor on screen as an object.
Your question of units also beings up another point, that the equation can really just be stated as e=m, given the appropriate units. The c^2 is just a factor to account for the common units not matching up.
"You can support the 2012 Games by not engaging in the unauthorised use of the Olympic Marks"
I totally support the 20... the ga.. the skill-comparing activities occurring on the year between 2011 and 2013, whose name sounds similar to olive and blimp.
"...less if everyone would take the 5 minutes required to implement GZip compression on their Apache servers. It saves you bandwidth, it speeds up your site for users (especially those on dialup)
Even when they have the modem compression enabled (something that's been available at least since V.32)?
"but what I'd really like to see is to have him locked in a cell, "Just Hitting Delete", once for every spam he sent, for 16 waking hours a day.
[...]
He has to reply to this mail to get an hour of exercise, have his medical checkups, or his meals."
I just have to say, I think this is brilliant! You could make it even more realistic by having a few important messages hidden in the bunch, containing a code he needs to gain access to the meal etc. This way he has to read the spam just to be sure it's not an important message. Such a fitting revenge.
So if we hook two of these together, they either form a negative feedback loop and keep praising each other (boring), or they form a positive feedback loop and kick each other's ass (cool).
"Each collector has a 37-foot-diameter array of mirrors to focus the sun's rays on the Stirling engine, which turns the heat into rotational torque for electricity generation."
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Time-limited access to a book is a known concept, that's what libraries are for.
But the reason libraries have a due date is because they loan physical materials. If they "loaned" digital copies, there would be no reason for a due date.
I've used a 35mm Pentax K1000 (pretty basic SLR) for a while and scanned the best photos, but they never came out that great and there was always some dust. I like to use shots of nature as desktop backgrounds.
I recently used a digital camera (Nikon Coolpix 4300, 4 megapixel) and would rather not go back to 35mm except for really special circumstances. I can transfer the pictures to the computer in a couple of minutes and they look great. Just messing around with it for the first time on the porch I took around 50 pictures of plants and the cat. Then on the first outing in nature I took 150 pictures. I didn't have to bother with thinking about the cost of each photo nor running out of film. I could easily check to be sure the pictures were being taken properly.
I really get annoyed when the map is presented as the territory. Nothing personal, just your wording mirrors the common presentation by journalists in articles, and it really annoys me.
"Since a black hole's entropy is directly proportional to it's information content, this, if true, would have an effect on black holes."
Affects our understanding of black holes.
"Now, if information can be negative, that would provide another method of shrinking a black hole, in addition to Hawking radiation."
It wouldn't produce another method; if true, another method already existed. Sometimes people talk as if at the moment of discovery something became possible that was physically impossible before.
A:The truth is my job is to help Microsoft have a clear, unbiased and knowledgeable understanding of Open Source Software (OSS)
If Microsoft is trying to exterminate Linux, they would want a clear understanding of Linux.
In fact, Microsoft has benefited from OSS, has participated in OSS projects, and feels that OSS will continue to have an important role in the ecosystem.
An enemy tends to have an important role in the ecosystem.
After many years of working in both environments, a mantra I've seen pay off numerous times is "choose technology to fit the need" not based on a belief or religion: in other words, if the software doesn't solve the problem in a cost effective way, belief and religion won't stop the IT guys' cell phones and pagers from ringing at 2 AM, and that goes for *any* technology, regardless of the development model.
But the core difference between OSS and proprietary isn't the technology, it's the license.
Q: [...] but does Microsoft realise that the reason some of us are on Linux is for the "Free as in Freedom" part? [...] the freedom to be able to customise it to their needs?
A: Great question, and as someone who has spent time in the academic world as well as in the HPC world, I very much understand your point.
There's always a trade-off between modularity and integration, or said another way, there is always a balance between the ability to customize anything and everything and the ability to deliver a consistent, tested and supported software solution to a broad base of users.
He doesn't get it. If you give users the freedom to customize your software, they can no matter what your design. There isn't a design tradeoff in that respect. The response reframes it as design question of whether to make the system easier to customize or have a more-polished single product.
Q: [...] Given your current position, does it look as if Microsoft will continue to try and marginalize OSS, or will they do an about face and work to try and ensure ongoing interoperability?
A: If there's one thing that I'd like people to take away from this interview, it's that we can, and should, cooperate and learn from one another. [...] We can compete - and competition is healthy - but just as important, we also need to cooperate and make sure that we pursue interoperability as a common goal. We need to be comfortable doing both, simultaneously. We need to have an open, mature relationship.
He turned it into this "we need to" crap, taking the focus off Microsoft's actions. "Well, things aren't working well (we're crushing you via monopolistic practices!) so we (YOU) need to try harder. I hope we can resolve these differences (once you're eliminated they will be resolved for good!)."
All the responses have the foul taste of "I'm making you think that I'm cheerfully answering your questions with honesty" while your questions get reframed and subtly misinterpreted. I don't like it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Which candidate will we choose? The one with restrictive DRM or the other one with restrictive DRM?"
What do you expect from a Digital Restrictions Management system?
I think "redundant power" refers to the dupe that'll appear in a day or so.
"If added noise makes the flight smoother, isn't this dither?"
I don' follow; where's the quantization step?
Or more simply, a shadow is not an object, thus no need to go further with physical analysis. We see it as an object because areas which maintain similar patterns of color, perhaps moving, are perceived as objects. Same way we perceive the mouse cursor on screen as an object.
Actually, I think it'll read something like
Slashdot. RIP.
Slashdot. RIP.
At least he won't need an emotion chip; the bugs in his CPU will provide plenty of character.
Your question of units also beings up another point, that the equation can really just be stated as e=m, given the appropriate units. The c^2 is just a factor to account for the common units not matching up.
Playing Electronic Arts games is just like homework already: doing the same thing over and over for several hours.
The police were able to return the "stolen" "items" by changing a few bits in the database.
(I made this up; the bits are actually still missing and considered unrecoverable)
"M$ has to have an entire building just for their piracy group."
I hear they're working overtime to get new features into Vista.
"our time traveling friend John Titor said there won't be Olympics after 2004"
Obviously a fraud, otherwise he would have known that it was punishable by death to utter the O word!
"You can support the 2012 Games by not engaging in the unauthorised use of the Olympic Marks"
I totally support the 20... the ga.. the skill-comparing activities occurring on the year between 2011 and 2013, whose name sounds similar to olive and blimp.
"I am sure that my daring to complain is what lost my coverage."
You complained about them not covering the damage, so you only lost the empty promise of coverage.
"...less if everyone would take the 5 minutes required to implement GZip compression on their Apache servers. It saves you bandwidth, it speeds up your site for users (especially those on dialup)
Even when they have the modem compression enabled (something that's been available at least since V.32)?
"but what I'd really like to see is to have him locked in a cell, "Just Hitting Delete", once for every spam he sent, for 16 waking hours a day.
[...]
He has to reply to this mail to get an hour of exercise, have his medical checkups, or his meals."
I just have to say, I think this is brilliant! You could make it even more realistic by having a few important messages hidden in the bunch, containing a code he needs to gain access to the meal etc. This way he has to read the spam just to be sure it's not an important message. Such a fitting revenge.
So if we hook two of these together, they either form a negative feedback loop and keep praising each other (boring), or they form a positive feedback loop and kick each other's ass (cool).
"Each collector has a 37-foot-diameter array of mirrors to focus the sun's rays on the Stirling engine, which turns the heat into rotational torque for electricity generation."
As opposed non-rotational torque?
Time-limited access to a book is a known concept, that's what libraries are for.
But the reason libraries have a due date is because they loan physical materials. If they "loaned" digital copies, there would be no reason for a due date.
Libraries add value. DRM takes it away.
Owning a real textbook: $59.95
Renting an E-textbook: $39.95
Keeping an E-textbook for life: priceless ($INF)
This came to mind. Not necessarily the case here, but predicting a company's future actions based on job postings seems common.
I've used a 35mm Pentax K1000 (pretty basic SLR) for a while and scanned the best photos, but they never came out that great and there was always some dust. I like to use shots of nature as desktop backgrounds.
I recently used a digital camera (Nikon Coolpix 4300, 4 megapixel) and would rather not go back to 35mm except for really special circumstances. I can transfer the pictures to the computer in a couple of minutes and they look great. Just messing around with it for the first time on the porch I took around 50 pictures of plants and the cat. Then on the first outing in nature I took 150 pictures. I didn't have to bother with thinking about the cost of each photo nor running out of film. I could easily check to be sure the pictures were being taken properly.
Now let's get an apostrophe expert in here to clean things up.
I really get annoyed when the map is presented as the territory. Nothing personal, just your wording mirrors the common presentation by journalists in articles, and it really annoys me.
"Since a black hole's entropy is directly proportional to it's information content, this, if true, would have an effect on black holes."
Affects our understanding of black holes.
"Now, if information can be negative, that would provide another method of shrinking a black hole, in addition to Hawking radiation."
It wouldn't produce another method; if true, another method already existed. Sometimes people talk as if at the moment of discovery something became possible that was physically impossible before.
Sorry, but this is full of half-truths.
Q: [Helping to exterminate Linux?]
A:The truth is my job is to help Microsoft have a clear, unbiased and knowledgeable understanding of Open Source Software (OSS)
If Microsoft is trying to exterminate Linux, they would want a clear understanding of Linux.
In fact, Microsoft has benefited from OSS, has participated in OSS projects, and feels that OSS will continue to have an important role in the ecosystem.
An enemy tends to have an important role in the ecosystem.
After many years of working in both environments, a mantra I've seen pay off numerous times is "choose technology to fit the need" not based on a belief or religion: in other words, if the software doesn't solve the problem in a cost effective way, belief and religion won't stop the IT guys' cell phones and pagers from ringing at 2 AM, and that goes for *any* technology, regardless of the development model.
But the core difference between OSS and proprietary isn't the technology, it's the license.
Q: [...] but does Microsoft realise that the reason some of us are on Linux is for the "Free as in Freedom" part? [...] the freedom to be able to customise it to their needs?
A: Great question, and as someone who has spent time in the academic world as well as in the HPC world, I very much understand your point.
There's always a trade-off between modularity and integration, or said another way, there is always a balance between the ability to customize anything and everything and the ability to deliver a consistent, tested and supported software solution to a broad base of users.
He doesn't get it. If you give users the freedom to customize your software, they can no matter what your design. There isn't a design tradeoff in that respect. The response reframes it as design question of whether to make the system easier to customize or have a more-polished single product.
Q: [...] Given your current position, does it look as if Microsoft will continue to try and marginalize OSS, or will they do an about face and work to try and ensure ongoing interoperability?
A: If there's one thing that I'd like people to take away from this interview, it's that we can, and should, cooperate and learn from one another. [...] We can compete - and competition is healthy - but just as important, we also need to cooperate and make sure that we pursue interoperability as a common goal. We need to be comfortable doing both, simultaneously. We need to have an open, mature relationship.
He turned it into this "we need to" crap, taking the focus off Microsoft's actions. "Well, things aren't working well (we're crushing you via monopolistic practices!) so we (YOU) need to try harder. I hope we can resolve these differences (once you're eliminated they will be resolved for good!)."
All the responses have the foul taste of "I'm making you think that I'm cheerfully answering your questions with honesty" while your questions get reframed and subtly misinterpreted. I don't like it.
$25 for a USB cable and $65 for toner.
Come on, that's a Monster USB cable that delivers crisper text and more vibrant colors! You get what you pay for.