Matter of this type might make an interesting component of a ground based anti-balistic missile system. The bullet would be microscopically small, but would have incredible mass and could hold significant kinetic energy, suitable for the destruction of a warhead.
Except that, with this technology, there'd be no war head, "they" would instead simply fire a couple of these nasty massive microscopic thingies directly at the targets...
Congratulations on inventing a new killer weapon;-)
...only if the website is (intentionaly?) misleading, which doesn't seem to be the case here...
I disagree. I think the guy intentially places the disclaimer so small at the bottom of the page to encourage confusion.
It's the same size as that on the official page...
Professional looking website don't put disclaimers on top of their page in large fonts, they distract you from the real content...
The design of the site isn't amatuer at all (a hell of a lot better than some University sites I've seen) it doesn't have a tag line that would help a random reader understand at first glance.
So, by your standards, a person making a web site about his school or about any "official" organisation should make his website look crap for the viewers to easily make the difference?
And about the tag line, there's a line on the bottom of the site stating "Not affiliated with the Paul M. Hebert School of Law" just like the one present on the official site that states (on the bottom too) "Official website of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center." I think that's enough to make a difference. Why would a "non official" website need to make its "not being official" clearer than the official one?
Why is there a need to say that you're not the official website anyway? Not to mislead people? AFAIK, that applies only if the website is (intentionaly?) misleading, which doesn't seem to be the case here...
a) Web surveys are seriously flawed
b) Americans think they know everything
c) All of the above
There was an international student math competition not so long ago. After the tests themselves, the participants were asked what they thought their position to be.
Results on average:
- US students thought they were the best, they ended up at the LAST position.
- Korean thought they were the worse. They ended up being first...
Teaches you quite a lot about what people think of themselves and how objective they are...
I agree that getting people to separate their garbage is a bad idea, because they won't do it (or at least won't like it)
I'll offer you a view of what happens in my country( Belgium) that may make you change your mind.
The recycling system works like this:
First, on a daily basis, I have several trashcans in my kitchen and garage.
- One for milk/juice/... boxes
- One is for plastic bottles (water, soda)
- One for paper
- One for glass bottles (wine) and recipients
- One for trash that doesn't go anywhere else (food, cigarette butts,...)
I have a large trashcan where I put this "trash that doesn't go anywhere else". The trash guys come once a week and if I have a container ready, they weigh it and I get to pay only for the trash I put out.
Every month people come to get the papers to recycle them (I don't pay anything for that)
The glass I bring to a big container half a mile away from the house.
Then there's a "container park"(link in french, sorry) in every city where one can bring other stuff, like green stuff you produce when gardening, plastic stuff,... This is also free for up to 3 cubic meters of trash per year.
We used to have a "put everything in a bag" type of trash collection. When we switched to this type of thing, people quickly realised it cost them less to sort the things than put everything in a bag. I've been doing this for a couple of years now, and although in the beginning it appeared tedious, it's now become part of the routine and is not bothersome at all...
Wrt the tax on recycling that you pay up front when purchasing electronic stuff, we've had that too for a couple of years and I must say that it didn't drive the price up or down in any way (the tax aside). The fact is that some things have a recycling tax attached to them depending on what it is. So people know when they purchase the thing that the tax is included in the cost.
I've always wondered if the "click if you agree" thing is enough. I remember learning once in my highschool law class that when it came to contracts etc, both parties had to fully understand the extent of the wording - in order to protect people from "fine print" trickery.
This raises an interesting question in my mind. My mother tongue is french, I have enough technical knowledge of english to figure out what the menus of a program are and what the use of the program is. But I don't understand english legalese (nor french, for that matter). So would a court consider that they tricked me into clicking the I agree button by intentionaly obfuscating the agreement?
You could of course complain that I should have clicked the "I don't agree" button then. But what in the case I give this software to my mother (who has no knowledge whatsoever of english), she tries installing the software and by trial and error, finds that the "I agree" button is the only one that installs the program. Can she still be considered tied by the "contract"?
"Microsoft's development of reliable and scalable server operating systems has enabled AMD to enter and compete more effectively in the server businesses...because most non-Microsoft server operating systems only run on specialized microprocessors," he [Sanders] testified
This line (the last of the article actually) puzzles me a lot. Microsoft servers are not in direct competition with big irons but more with linux, BSD and solaris servers as far as my understanding goes. So why does he say that "non-MS servers" run on specialiazed microprocessors.
AMD processors are very well supported under linux, albeit a bit later than Intel counterparts
I'm leaving aside the claim that MS makes "reliable and scalable" servers.
AMD, like other software and hardware vendors, would no longer be able to rely upon the existence of particular software code in Windows or the APIs
I really wonder what APIs or software code in the media player or IE AMD, a HARDWARE vendor relies on... I really do...
thank you (not) for spoiling a movie I haven't seen yet. Between you and others, I have seen the whole movie without reading a single article discussing it.
It indicates that it's not just the guns that are responsible for the killings
Of course, guns don't kill, people do...
Handguns are illegal in the UK, but those numbers indicate that the law isn't all that effective in stopping gun crime
I think 50 TIMES less gun crimes IS effective, that's 98% less...
They're stories! Come on! They're made-up people in made-up situations. Movies about average people doing average things just don't sell. Why pay to sit in a cinema to watch that when you can just watch life for two hours?
When you don't know anything about a country but that or CNN, it's obvious that the stereotype is what it is.
By the way, in Europe we have quite a bunch of movies about normal people doing normal things, social movies. And they DO sell here. Take, for instance, the movie "Amelie" (whose real name "The wonderful fate of Amelie Poulain" was shortened for the US market, go figure), it's a movie about a normal person doing normal things with normal other people. I think it's "just" in the US that people are interested only in extravanganza...
Who the hell are they? Unless we are conquered by external forces, (not likely) they are the ones we elect.
If we are sure to never elect the type of asshole who would take our right to vote away
If you (clever people) are not even able to do that with ICANN, how do you hope to be able to do that as a country filled by less-educated people who vote according to what they see on TV or with arguments like "my family has been democrat since 822 BC" or whether some dude screwed his secretary?
I really wonder...
Note that I'd wish it to be the case, but I have no trust in US citizen (as a whole) acting in a responsible way, as they don't seem to have done so since the revolution...
That's pretty low considering that there's probably many more than 50 times the number of guns per capita in the US than there are in the UK.
What a weird thing you're telling. IMNSHO it's totally irrelevant that the number of weapons per capita is higher, what matters is that it cost the life of 12000 people.
With death penalty and that 2nd amendment, it's really no wonder the american stereotype is a cowboy. And look at the majority of movies you export to the rest of the world: USA are depicted as a violent country with little moral values filled by cowboys, fat people watching TV and racists. Also, this whole story of the "american dream" depicted in movies translates fpr the common people into "americans are workaholics", "corporations are ran by power-hungry, selfish, discriminating people".
You know, I'd be more than happy to have uniform laws throughout the world, or at least in what 'we' call "western countries".
The problem comes with agreeing on them. I like the *original* US constitution quite a lot, not its current implementation though. There are a couple of things I don't like about european laws though (especially those that constraint the freedom of speech) although I can very much understand the reason behind these laws, coming from a part of the world that suffered 2 world wars and massive killing of citizens. *MY* favourite combination would take a bit of the US laws and the majority of european laws.
Seeing the direction the USA is headed to these days, if I was asked whether I'm in favor of global laws, I'd vote NO with both hands. Until countries (and people ruling these countries) stop acting selfishly but instead act for the greater common good, I don't think we'll ever be able to achieve anything remotely close to uniform global laws that are worth something. Alas, I don't know if this civilization is ever going to be able to achieve that... The naive side of me wishes so, there is still hope, but I'm getting more and more disgusted with the world as a whole.
Thanks for the clarification. But the USA law allows it, although some states choose not to apply it, right? Otherwise no state court could order a death sentence or am I wrong? If I'm wrong that would mean that there is not uniformity with regard to law from state to state, and if the supreme court decides something, each state could decide otherwise?
Is there a treaty that both the US and the Netherlands have signed that would allow a US lawyer to cite the Dutch ruling?
There currently isn't, and I'm **EXTREMELY** happy to see it that way... Why? Simply because then all the stupid US laws would then apply to me and my fellow european citizen. There's no death penalty here, no DMCA and generally less (none that I know of) corporate-bought laws.
I thought the same thing too, after I was sent an annoying.doc file, so I headed to microsoft.com and searched for viewers and headed to the office viewers and couldn't find a viewer for Word, all other products, yes, but not Word...
I may be looking the wrong way, but I have the impression than unless I'm using windows 3.1, there's no way for me to see Word documents other than purchasing M$ Word
Sure, 83 seconds, for 2.5 GB, but we're talking here about transfer capabilities of 320GB/s, so approximately 11000 times faster than your HDD can write data... I fail to understand why you replied with these figures.
an average human being has a ear definition of 25-35ms, which means that if you heard a different sounds with 30ms between each of them, they'll appear continuous to you. As you mentioned, most cards achieve less than 10ms latency, which is far enough for an average human.
Arboretum Systems These guys created tons of amazing VST (among others)plugins, noise reduction, click and pop removal software back in the days.They also came up with the (sure, it's obvious now, but back then wasn't)system to enable a user to tweak multiple parameters in 2 dimensions instead of using sliders (1 dimension).
While I hadn't heard about them in a long time, I got to see them at the AES and NAMM show, they demoed a program for OS X that is supposedly able to make audio and video compositions with effects, etc... all without tracks.
If there's one thing that has always bothered me with audio programs, it's that they try to emulate physical devices, not taking into account the fact that computers are excellent at presenting information in a different way. Hence my pleasure to see a powerful-looking trackless system in the works for my beloved OS X box.
Maybe the Internet NEEDS a benevolent dictator, and if so, the US gov't is the best bet.
The US would be an excellent dictator, but a benevolent dictator? You must be kidding...
Who cares more about money than the US government (corruption is opposite to benevolence)? Look at who you have as a president and tell me how it could have happened without money. Look at what the USA does to prevent its own interests (Iraq, VietNam, lying to people about the plane on washington [do a google search]) but does little when its own interests are not at hand (Somalia, Congo, China,...).
I wouldn't trust the US government to save my life, would you?
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Except that, with this technology, there'd be no war head, "they" would instead simply fire a couple of these nasty massive microscopic thingies directly at the targets...
Congratulations on inventing a new killer weapon ;-)
Ok, write one, I'll forward it to all my american friends... (no kidding)
Professional looking website don't put disclaimers on top of their page in large fonts, they distract you from the real content...
Of course, there's the exception of extremely important disclaimers and even then, look at the page you're currently looking, right at the bottom, in small prints, there goes the disclaimer: " All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2002 OSDN." and IMHO, that's a much more important one that stating whether you're an official website or not.
So, by your standards, a person making a web site about his school or about any "official" organisation should make his website look crap for the viewers to easily make the difference?
And about the tag line, there's a line on the bottom of the site stating "Not affiliated with the Paul M. Hebert School of Law" just like the one present on the official site that states (on the bottom too) "Official website of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center." I think that's enough to make a difference. Why would a "non official" website need to make its "not being official" clearer than the official one?
Why is there a need to say that you're not the official website anyway? Not to mislead people? AFAIK, that applies only if the website is (intentionaly?) misleading, which doesn't seem to be the case here...
Although I have to admit I'm pretty disapointed it doesn't render correctly with Mozilla :(
Results on average:
- US students thought they were the best, they ended up at the LAST position.
- Korean thought they were the worse. They ended up being first...
Teaches you quite a lot about what people think of themselves and how objective they are...
I'll offer you a view of what happens in my country( Belgium) that may make you change your mind.
The recycling system works like this: First, on a daily basis, I have several trashcans in my kitchen and garage. ...)
- One for milk/juice/... boxes
- One is for plastic bottles (water, soda)
- One for paper
- One for glass bottles (wine) and recipients
- One for trash that doesn't go anywhere else (food, cigarette butts,
I have a large trashcan where I put this "trash that doesn't go anywhere else". The trash guys come once a week and if I have a container ready, they weigh it and I get to pay only for the trash I put out. ... This is also free for up to 3 cubic meters of trash per year.
Every month people come to get the papers to recycle them (I don't pay anything for that)
The glass I bring to a big container half a mile away from the house.
Then there's a "container park"(link in french, sorry) in every city where one can bring other stuff, like green stuff you produce when gardening, plastic stuff,
We used to have a "put everything in a bag" type of trash collection. When we switched to this type of thing, people quickly realised it cost them less to sort the things than put everything in a bag.
I've been doing this for a couple of years now, and although in the beginning it appeared tedious, it's now become part of the routine and is not bothersome at all...
Wrt the tax on recycling that you pay up front when purchasing electronic stuff, we've had that too for a couple of years and I must say that it didn't drive the price up or down in any way (the tax aside). The fact is that some things have a recycling tax attached to them depending on what it is. So people know when they purchase the thing that the tax is included in the cost.
You definately made me laugh. Too bad I can't moderate in a thread I post in...
This raises an interesting question in my mind. My mother tongue is french, I have enough technical knowledge of english to figure out what the menus of a program are and what the use of the program is. But I don't understand english legalese (nor french, for that matter). So would a court consider that they tricked me into clicking the I agree button by intentionaly obfuscating the agreement?
You could of course complain that I should have clicked the "I don't agree" button then. But what in the case I give this software to my mother (who has no knowledge whatsoever of english), she tries installing the software and by trial and error, finds that the "I agree" button is the only one that installs the program. Can she still be considered tied by the "contract"?
This line (the last of the article actually) puzzles me a lot. Microsoft servers are not in direct competition with big irons but more with linux, BSD and solaris servers as far as my understanding goes. So why does he say that "non-MS servers" run on specialiazed microprocessors.
AMD processors are very well supported under linux, albeit a bit later than Intel counterparts
I'm leaving aside the claim that MS makes "reliable and scalable" servers.
I really wonder what APIs or software code in the media player or IE AMD, a HARDWARE vendor relies on... I really do...thank you (not) for spoiling a movie I haven't seen yet. Between you and others, I have seen the whole movie without reading a single article discussing it.
Of course, guns don't kill, people do...
I think 50 TIMES less gun crimes IS effective, that's 98% less...
When you don't know anything about a country but that or CNN, it's obvious that the stereotype is what it is.By the way, in Europe we have quite a bunch of movies about normal people doing normal things, social movies. And they DO sell here. Take, for instance, the movie "Amelie" (whose real name "The wonderful fate of Amelie Poulain" was shortened for the US market, go figure), it's a movie about a normal person doing normal things with normal other people. I think it's "just" in the US that people are interested only in extravanganza...
If you (clever people) are not even able to do that with ICANN, how do you hope to be able to do that as a country filled by less-educated people who vote according to what they see on TV or with arguments like "my family has been democrat since 822 BC" or whether some dude screwed his secretary?
I really wonder...
Note that I'd wish it to be the case, but I have no trust in US citizen (as a whole) acting in a responsible way, as they don't seem to have done so since the revolution...
What a weird thing you're telling. IMNSHO it's totally irrelevant that the number of weapons per capita is higher, what matters is that it cost the life of 12000 people.
With death penalty and that 2nd amendment, it's really no wonder the american stereotype is a cowboy. And look at the majority of movies you export to the rest of the world: USA are depicted as a violent country with little moral values filled by cowboys, fat people watching TV and racists. Also, this whole story of the "american dream" depicted in movies translates fpr the common people into "americans are workaholics", "corporations are ran by power-hungry, selfish, discriminating people".
If I didn't know better, I'd think that too...
Or anywhere else in the world actually. There IS something outside of the US of A you know ;-)
I'm not him, but I'd guess french is his mother tongue, mine is and "toto" sounds like "as valid" a variable name as "blah"...
The problem comes with agreeing on them. I like the *original* US constitution quite a lot, not its current implementation though. There are a couple of things I don't like about european laws though (especially those that constraint the freedom of speech) although I can very much understand the reason behind these laws, coming from a part of the world that suffered 2 world wars and massive killing of citizens. *MY* favourite combination would take a bit of the US laws and the majority of european laws.
Seeing the direction the USA is headed to these days, if I was asked whether I'm in favor of global laws, I'd vote NO with both hands. Until countries (and people ruling these countries) stop acting selfishly but instead act for the greater common good, I don't think we'll ever be able to achieve anything remotely close to uniform global laws that are worth something. Alas, I don't know if this civilization is ever going to be able to achieve that... The naive side of me wishes so, there is still hope, but I'm getting more and more disgusted with the world as a whole.
Thanks for the clarification. But the USA law allows it, although some states choose not to apply it, right? Otherwise no state court could order a death sentence or am I wrong? If I'm wrong that would mean that there is not uniformity with regard to law from state to state, and if the supreme court decides something, each state could decide otherwise?
There currently isn't, and I'm **EXTREMELY** happy to see it that way... Why? Simply because then all the stupid US laws would then apply to me and my fellow european citizen. There's no death penalty here, no DMCA and generally less (none that I know of) corporate-bought laws.
Keep the US laws in the US, thank you...
I thought the same thing too, after I was sent an annoying .doc file, so I headed to microsoft.com and searched for viewers and headed to the office viewers and couldn't find a viewer for Word, all other products, yes, but not Word...
I may be looking the wrong way, but I have the impression than unless I'm using windows 3.1, there's no way for me to see Word documents other than purchasing M$ Word
Good, and then you'll have to wait 4 hours for your HDD to write them ;-).
an average human being has a ear definition of 25-35ms, which means that if you heard a different sounds with 30ms between each of them, they'll appear continuous to you. As you mentioned, most cards achieve less than 10ms latency, which is far enough for an average human.
While I hadn't heard about them in a long time, I got to see them at the AES and NAMM show, they demoed a program for OS X that is supposedly able to make audio and video compositions with effects, etc... all without tracks.
If there's one thing that has always bothered me with audio programs, it's that they try to emulate physical devices, not taking into account the fact that computers are excellent at presenting information in a different way. Hence my pleasure to see a powerful-looking trackless system in the works for my beloved OS X box.
The US would be an excellent dictator, but a benevolent dictator? You must be kidding...
Who cares more about money than the US government (corruption is opposite to benevolence)? Look at who you have as a president and tell me how it could have happened without money. Look at what the USA does to prevent its own interests (Iraq, VietNam, lying to people about the plane on washington [do a google search]) but does little when its own interests are not at hand (Somalia, Congo, China, ...).
I wouldn't trust the US government to save my life, would you?