Well my suggestion to JEDEC is that next time, they have anyone who will sit in sign a binding contract that states they cannot sue anyone for patents they don't disclose during the process.
So either Rambus could have disclosed immediately or they could never have sued. Either way that stops the submarine.
If gravity is based on some entropic value and not 'mass', shouldn't this immediately lead to testable hypotheses? Eg. Change the entropy of something by a different value than mass and re-weigh it.
Or, he's just found a new way to 'describe' mass. In which case the above experiment can never be done.
I've always noticed I've been quite picky about FPS in games. I once recruited a friend to help me to a blind test on myself with the help of quake3. He set the max framerate in game with com_maxfps and I had to say whether it was 90 or 120fps after playing for 30seconds or less.. I got it right 100% of the time.
Try it for yourself, you can do it with quakelive as well. I may have been taking in extra queues, the game mechanics are sort of tied to the frame rate, in fact on certain maps you could only make certain jumps within a certain FPS range. It also may have helped that I have a preference for 120hz CRT screens. I haven't repeated the test on my current 60FPS LCD.
Having actually *played* DAO, this comes as no surprise to me.
I guess maybe it's because everytime I wandered into a tavern, there would always be a sneaky NPC who came up to me and tried to make me pre-order it!
Man, this one time, I slew a huge dragon after an epic battle; then after he died, while I was plundering the gold, he popped back up to life, did a little song and dance about this expansion and tried to sell me a magic weapon if I would pre-order it. To add salt to the wound my browser launches sending me to their website and I got some popups.
You know the first thing I'm gonna fucking do, is mix this shit in my rum and cokes while chewing some nicotine gum and smoking a fat joint.
And I know I'm not the only one.
I work for a large company with 130k employees and EVERYBODY uses IE6 because it's what the IT department mandates. To get an exception to this you have to go through so much hassle and have a business provable reason for the request.
I wish I could use a better browser, IE6 really sucks in many many ways. It's slooww, has memory leaks like you wouldn't believe and doesn't even render slashdot correctly.
Actually if you do a simple google search and wade through dubious sites until you find quality research, you will find that *many* of the states which supposedly ratified the 16th amendment, either outright did not do so, or did so improperly.
Here's the problem: when it went to the supreme court, they recognized that this was the case and said it did not *matter* because the man in charge of certifying the ratification had approved the process.
Yes, you read that right. The courts said that even though the amendment was improperly ratified by many states, since the person in charge of the ratification process at the time had approved it, in their eyes it stood. They further ruled that just attempting to use the defense in court that the amendment was never ratified would be considered to be wasting the courts time because they had already made their ruling.
So on one hand there is the truth of the matter, that the amendment was not properly ratified even by a big stretch of the imagination. And on the other there is the legal reality, that precedent will screw you big time if you use this argument.
On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence?
Because my friend, what you have is not worthy of being called a "theory".
A theory, in the scientific sense of the word, is an analytic structure designed to explain a set of empirical observations. A scientific theory does two things:
it identifies this set of distinct observations as a class of phenomena, and
makes assertions about the underlying reality that brings about or affects this class.
The fact that you claim to use the scientific method only proves you don't even grasp the basics.
Your religion was not formulated by collecting data through observation and experimentation and consists of no hypotheses... Religions are nothing but systems of pubic control where people are told what to think and how to behave in a very illogical and unscientific manner totally devoid of critical thinking.
Please take your pile of stinking nonsense and stop using words like science in association.
This isn't a big conspiracy. This is city government. If you've ever been to a small city governmental meeting you know that the proportion of complete idiots pontificating over each other is quite high.
In this case the majority of people in the room when this was decided were that kind of people.
Give it a little bit and their asses are gonna be toast in court and they're going to realize that they can't rule over the city folk like dictators. Unfortunately they will never realize the real magnitude of their stupidity.
Dear CensorshipDonkey,
Hello, how is your postings on slashdot and all that going?
Well unfortunately it's my sad duty to inform you that we all got together and took a quick vote. We've voted that we do not want your breathing and general CO2 producing ass around.
Sorry about that!
Anyway if you could stop breathing and exhaling that would be great and all so we don't have to vote on a resolution on what to do next.
Hope all is well and sorry again.
Are you serious? The article is treating traffic court to some kind of regular court standards... Traffic court is a fucking kangaroo court with dubious legality and no oversight. Everything about it stinks to high heaven from the magistrate who is supposed to be unbiased but is really trying to con you to the judge who acts as judge, jury and prosecutor.
The judicial system is only supposed to adjudicate over a matter when one party can show damages caused by another. I'm sure this is not the case for silly traffic tickets.
I wish some lawyer who is familiar with how the real court system works would chime in and list all of the differences here.
I have witnessed many times people making illogical arguments and fining drivers when clearly under any type of innocent until proven guilty system the drivers should have gone free.
Traffic court systems are chaotic, disorderly and inconsistent cesspools of nonsensical arguments and big egos...
There is only one way to describe the whole traffic court system: unconstitutional.
The only reason it remains is because of the sheer massive size of the monstrosity, how much income and how many jobs depend on the entire thing.
Also, yes you can say that a placebo is effective. Because you can compare a placebo group with a non-treated group. If 30% less patients die within a year in the placebo group than in the non-treatment group and your stats are solid, you've either got a really kick ass sugar pill that's actually curing people and you need to alert the FDA *or* *drum roll* They got better because of the fake treatment. IE placebo effect.
The placebo effect is a problem of measurement. It would be more correct to say that measurement is becoming less effective.
Clearly measurement is not becoming less effective. The placebo effect is real and can be described and quantitated and no way prevents determining the efficacy of new drugs. In fact our knowledge, technique, experimental design and standards are all improving leading to more accurate *and* precise measurements.
Furthermore, the revision is designed to eliminate the need for ISPs to deal with problems caused by excessive BitTorrent traffic on their networks
How wrong this is. ISPs don't give a crap about this and it's never going to work.
1. They don't give a crap because the real reason they throttle is because they don't want you using your bandwidth. You know the bandwidth you actually paid for. Whether you are supposedly clogging up their pipe or not is not the point. The point is that you are using more bandwidth than another user and they could kick your ass and sell their internets to 1000 old ladies instead.
2. It's never going to work because of (1) and because the problem it's trying to solve was never a problem for the ISP it was always a problem for the end user anyway. You think that the ISPs have big download pipes and small upload limits like you do? They don't. Their shit is equilateral. You can stop clogging your tiny upload allocation as much as you want, it's never going to affect the ISP. They never had an UP shortage because they have equal up/down bandwith and provide you with tiny up limits. It may help the end user, but only if it's already better than existing solutions, which if you already know what your ISP castrates your up bandwidth to, it's not.
Hard disks will probably be the storage of choice for people with large data storage needs. However since bandwidth to the home is increasing at a SNAILS pace, most people won't have the need for so much storage and will buy the equivalently priced but faster, lower power, silent and reliable solid state stuff.
Had the situation been different and bandwidth to the home been going through the same improvement rate as HD storage, the result might have been different. But in 1997 I had a comcast connection at 5Mbit down / 2Mbit up speeds for roughly the same price as I now have a 10Mbit down / 5Mbit up. In 1997 I also bought something like a 3Gig hard drive for a comparable price to the 2TB hard drive I bought last week.
Hard disk storage has improved by 600+ fold.
Pipes to fill the hard disk have improved by 2 fold.
And don't forget that if you actually USE your bandwidth, many ISPs will hassle you or cut you off.
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So either Rambus could have disclosed immediately or they could never have sued. Either way that stops the submarine.
Memory management to me doesn't become a problem unless I run out (and I've made sure that on my desktop machines, I won't run out).
Famous. Last. Words.
So,
If gravity is based on some entropic value and not 'mass', shouldn't this immediately lead to testable hypotheses? Eg. Change the entropy of something by a different value than mass and re-weigh it.
Or, he's just found a new way to 'describe' mass. In which case the above experiment can never be done.
I've always noticed I've been quite picky about FPS in games. I once recruited a friend to help me to a blind test on myself with the help of quake3. He set the max framerate in game with com_maxfps and I had to say whether it was 90 or 120fps after playing for 30seconds or less.. I got it right 100% of the time.
Try it for yourself, you can do it with quakelive as well. I may have been taking in extra queues, the game mechanics are sort of tied to the frame rate, in fact on certain maps you could only make certain jumps within a certain FPS range. It also may have helped that I have a preference for 120hz CRT screens. I haven't repeated the test on my current 60FPS LCD.
Having actually *played* DAO, this comes as no surprise to me.
I guess maybe it's because everytime I wandered into a tavern, there would always be a sneaky NPC who came up to me and tried to make me pre-order it!
Man, this one time, I slew a huge dragon after an epic battle; then after he died, while I was plundering the gold, he popped back up to life, did a little song and dance about this expansion and tried to sell me a magic weapon if I would pre-order it. To add salt to the wound my browser launches sending me to their website and I got some popups.
No shit, that is really sad. Shame on anyone who even mentions dubai while being ignorant of this.
Actually, other major components of your hangover include:
For most of these it doesn't matter what quality vodka you drink.
You know the first thing I'm gonna fucking do, is mix this shit in my rum and cokes while chewing some nicotine gum and smoking a fat joint.
And I know I'm not the only one.
Sir,
You have made a nuanced and intricate post and I find myself very much relating to your sentiments.
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I work for a large company with 130k employees and EVERYBODY uses IE6 because it's what the IT department mandates. To get an exception to this you have to go through so much hassle and have a business provable reason for the request.
I wish I could use a better browser, IE6 really sucks in many many ways. It's slooww, has memory leaks like you wouldn't believe and doesn't even render slashdot correctly.
To say that the supply of lithium is limited, is like going back 150 years ago and saying that the supply of oil is limited.
Who the Frack wants windows on their phone?
Whatever solution you choose, including xmbc, make sure you use a wiimote as a controller. It's mad cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIHRZK1Lrk
Here's the problem: when it went to the supreme court, they recognized that this was the case and said it did not *matter* because the man in charge of certifying the ratification had approved the process.
Yes, you read that right. The courts said that even though the amendment was improperly ratified by many states, since the person in charge of the ratification process at the time had approved it, in their eyes it stood. They further ruled that just attempting to use the defense in court that the amendment was never ratified would be considered to be wasting the courts time because they had already made their ruling.
So on one hand there is the truth of the matter, that the amendment was not properly ratified even by a big stretch of the imagination. And on the other there is the legal reality, that precedent will screw you big time if you use this argument.
Here is a link: http://www.motorola.com/us
Better yet, why don't you give your carrier or whomever sold you the phone a call about it, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you!
On the flip side, what further bruises my forehead is when I see a person or group of people who have faith in God do adjust their beliefs to new evidence they see while still holding on to elements of their faith they see as still consistent with that evidence and they are ridiculed for doing so by others claiming to be critical thinkers. Why would such a person attack the essence of the scientific method, namely the adjustment of theories against evidence?
Because my friend, what you have is not worthy of being called a "theory".
A theory, in the scientific sense of the word, is an analytic structure designed to explain a set of empirical observations. A scientific theory does two things:
The fact that you claim to use the scientific method only proves you don't even grasp the basics.
Your religion was not formulated by collecting data through observation and experimentation and consists of no hypotheses... Religions are nothing but systems of pubic control where people are told what to think and how to behave in a very illogical and unscientific manner totally devoid of critical thinking.
Please take your pile of stinking nonsense and stop using words like science in association.
In this case the majority of people in the room when this was decided were that kind of people.
Give it a little bit and their asses are gonna be toast in court and they're going to realize that they can't rule over the city folk like dictators. Unfortunately they will never realize the real magnitude of their stupidity.
Dear CensorshipDonkey,
Hello, how is your postings on slashdot and all that going?
Well unfortunately it's my sad duty to inform you that we all got together and took a quick vote. We've voted that we do not want your breathing and general CO2 producing ass around.
Sorry about that!
Anyway if you could stop breathing and exhaling that would be great and all so we don't have to vote on a resolution on what to do next.
Hope all is well and sorry again.
If the system he is proposing is so much better than dedicated servers, where are his details?
If he is suggesting the client/server model is dead... then he's having a stroke. How are you supposed to have lan parties without a dedicated server?
Are you serious? The article is treating traffic court to some kind of regular court standards... Traffic court is a fucking kangaroo court with dubious legality and no oversight.
Everything about it stinks to high heaven from the magistrate who is supposed to be unbiased but is really trying to con you to the judge who acts as judge, jury and prosecutor.
The judicial system is only supposed to adjudicate over a matter when one party can show damages caused by another. I'm sure this is not the case for silly traffic tickets.
I wish some lawyer who is familiar with how the real court system works would chime in and list all of the differences here.
I have witnessed many times people making illogical arguments and fining drivers when clearly under any type of innocent until proven guilty system the drivers should have gone free.
Traffic court systems are chaotic, disorderly and inconsistent cesspools of nonsensical arguments and big egos...
There is only one way to describe the whole traffic court system: unconstitutional.
The only reason it remains is because of the sheer massive size of the monstrosity, how much income and how many jobs depend on the entire thing.
Placebo means sugar pill or treatment without active ingredient.
The common definition of placebo effect specifically refers to the positive results or side effects caused *only* as a direct response to the patient's belief and expectations that the placebo they are receiving will work. That single aspect is referred to as the placebo effect.
Also, yes you can say that a placebo is effective. Because you can compare a placebo group with a non-treated group. If 30% less patients die within a year in the placebo group than in the non-treatment group and your stats are solid, you've either got a really kick ass sugar pill that's actually curing people and you need to alert the FDA *or* *drum roll* They got better because of the fake treatment. IE placebo effect.
The placebo effect is a problem of measurement. It would be more correct to say that measurement is becoming less effective.
Clearly measurement is not becoming less effective. The placebo effect is real and can be described and quantitated and no way prevents determining the efficacy of new drugs. In fact our knowledge, technique, experimental design and standards are all improving leading to more accurate *and* precise measurements.
Those have demonstrated much more energy recovery from regen braking.
Furthermore, the revision is designed to eliminate the need for ISPs to deal with problems caused by excessive BitTorrent traffic on their networks
How wrong this is. ISPs don't give a crap about this and it's never going to work.
1. They don't give a crap because the real reason they throttle is because they don't want you using your bandwidth. You know the bandwidth you actually paid for. Whether you are supposedly clogging up their pipe or not is not the point. The point is that you are using more bandwidth than another user and they could kick your ass and sell their internets to 1000 old ladies instead.
2. It's never going to work because of (1) and because the problem it's trying to solve was never a problem for the ISP it was always a problem for the end user anyway. You think that the ISPs have big download pipes and small upload limits like you do? They don't. Their shit is equilateral. You can stop clogging your tiny upload allocation as much as you want, it's never going to affect the ISP. They never had an UP shortage because they have equal up/down bandwith and provide you with tiny up limits. It may help the end user, but only if it's already better than existing solutions, which if you already know what your ISP castrates your up bandwidth to, it's not.
Nobody.
Hard disks will probably be the storage of choice for people with large data storage needs. However since bandwidth to the home is increasing at a SNAILS pace, most people won't have the need for so much storage and will buy the equivalently priced but faster, lower power, silent and reliable solid state stuff.
Had the situation been different and bandwidth to the home been going through the same improvement rate as HD storage, the result might have been different. But in 1997 I had a comcast connection at 5Mbit down / 2Mbit up speeds for roughly the same price as I now have a 10Mbit down / 5Mbit up. In 1997 I also bought something like a 3Gig hard drive for a comparable price to the 2TB hard drive I bought last week.
Hard disk storage has improved by 600+ fold. Pipes to fill the hard disk have improved by 2 fold.
And don't forget that if you actually USE your bandwidth, many ISPs will hassle you or cut you off.