Sometimes though, it's possible to miss the obvious.
Comets get discovered all the time by non-professionals, assumedly because a professional isn't going to randomly scan the sky with their expensive telescope time, rather they are going to concentrate on whatever project they are currently working on.
It's that sort of effect I am talking about. It's possible to get so caught up in working toward some certain end with professional research, that something groundbreaking may slip by.
And just how much equipment does it take to develop a new algorithm that could change the way the world works?
I take issue with your statement. I mean a lot of research comes from constant refinement, with billions of dollars poured into it, but these days, everyone has access to thousands of sources of information in theousands of fields for the price of an ISP account.
I'd argue that there is an effect that would make really groundbreaking discoveries more likely to come from an amateur. If something really is groundbreakingly simple to implement, then by it's nature it is something that can be discovered with little resources.
Insert obligitory reference to Apple Computer, and I rest my case.
Sorry man, but MCA and EISA were both approved standards. It's not as if they didn't make licensing available for them on a RAND basis. Maybe you meant some other bus?
While that, by itself isn't too bad, lots of places require that, Blockbuster goes the extra mile and pays up to 4X as much to get a special hair test done that will detect drug use in the last three months.
They go to such great lengths to descriminate against anyone who has ever done drugs at all, that says something about the political beliefs of the company.
Don't support the irrational war on drugs by giving Blockbuster money.
Got a question about something I am working on. I'm using spark gap surge supression, and I'm having trouble visualizing the circuit properties of spark gaps in series and parallel.
If I had two gaps that arc over at 100 volts each and put them in series, will 200 volts make them arc then?
That still leaves the other point, I don't see how an extremely hard interfacing surface would help. The pressure needed to deform the diamond and get good thermal contact would crush the processor.
diamond have probabbly the best thermal conductivity known to man
What gave you that idea?
Even if it were, what would be the point of a thin layer of it between the heat sink and the chip? NEWS FLASH: Diamonds are hard.
The whole point of an interfacing layer between the processor core and the heat sink is to put something mushy in there to compensate for imperfections in the surface of the chip and of the core that could cause less than 100% contact between the two.
Havn't you ever seen those arm wrestling simulators at arcades? Granted it doesn't have articulated fingers, flexible wrist or flexible elbow, but it's an old idea.
A force of one newton will accelerate a mass of one kilogram at the rate of one meter per second per second
I guess the easiest way to explain newton meters is if the rotating object had a thing sticking out from the axis that was one meter long, it would exert one Newton of force at the end.
I think we are talking probably about a motor here that is smaller than a small appliance motor, but larger than an R/C type motor, something about as big as your fist.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, physics was never my strong point.
I don't think you realize what I was talking about. The original poster said that "they had no right to bitch", i.e. they have no right to say what they will in an news article such as this one.
You are right, but I think everyone assumed that I was talking about the spam itself, and I wasn't, I was only talking about their speech in the article.
61 fatalities directly due to high school and college football from 1982-1996. 115 deaths from exertion due to playing football during the same period.
That's almost 200 kids that would be alive today if football was banned. The answer is obvious. If it saves just one life, we must ban football.
RMS has no objection to people selling GPL software. He encourages it in fact. You just have to abide by the license that applies to all redistribution, and you better be doubly sure if you are selling it, since the community is more likely to jump all over you.
I social change though, a "word on the street" that buying into the spam business is a sucker's game, will greatly reduce the amount of spam. It won't eliminate it, but it will greatly reduce it.
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Ephedra is a herb, you can get it at any herb store.
Ephedrine is the chemical in question that is a slightly controlled substance, but not in it's natural forms.
Sometimes though, it's possible to miss the obvious.
Comets get discovered all the time by non-professionals, assumedly because a professional isn't going to randomly scan the sky with their expensive telescope time, rather they are going to concentrate on whatever project they are currently working on.
It's that sort of effect I am talking about. It's possible to get so caught up in working toward some certain end with professional research, that something groundbreaking may slip by.
And just how much equipment does it take to develop a new algorithm that could change the way the world works?
I take issue with your statement. I mean a lot of research comes from constant refinement, with billions of dollars poured into it, but these days, everyone has access to thousands of sources of information in theousands of fields for the price of an ISP account.
I'd argue that there is an effect that would make really groundbreaking discoveries more likely to come from an amateur. If something really is groundbreakingly simple to implement, then by it's nature it is something that can be discovered with little resources.
Insert obligitory reference to Apple Computer, and I rest my case.
Sorry man, but MCA and EISA were both approved standards. It's not as if they didn't make licensing available for them on a RAND basis. Maybe you meant some other bus?
Mandatory drug tests.
While that, by itself isn't too bad, lots of places require that, Blockbuster goes the extra mile and pays up to 4X as much to get a special hair test done that will detect drug use in the last three months.
They go to such great lengths to descriminate against anyone who has ever done drugs at all, that says something about the political beliefs of the company.
Don't support the irrational war on drugs by giving Blockbuster money.
Instead, the top 1% are really screwing the rest of us with illegeal activities, fraud, lies and cheating. It really makes me sick.
And how is this different from the last 10,000 years of human history?
I guess you havn't bought a game in the last 20 years or so?
Got a question about something I am working on. I'm using spark gap surge supression, and I'm having trouble visualizing the circuit properties of spark gaps in series and parallel.
If I had two gaps that arc over at 100 volts each and put them in series, will 200 volts make them arc then?
Heh, seems I was incorrect on that point.
That still leaves the other point, I don't see how an extremely hard interfacing surface would help. The pressure needed to deform the diamond and get good thermal contact would crush the processor.
Are you going to crush a watermelon with a large mallet now? :)
diamond have probabbly the best thermal conductivity known to man
What gave you that idea?
Even if it were, what would be the point of a thin layer of it between the heat sink and the chip? NEWS FLASH: Diamonds are hard.
The whole point of an interfacing layer between the processor core and the heat sink is to put something mushy in there to compensate for imperfections in the surface of the chip and of the core that could cause less than 100% contact between the two.
The joule is a unit of energy, the watt is the unit of power, and the N m is the measure of torque.
You slashdotted your new host. I bet tomorrow they raise their rates.
Havn't you ever seen those arm wrestling simulators at arcades? Granted it doesn't have articulated fingers, flexible wrist or flexible elbow, but it's an old idea.
It means Newton Meters, it's a measure of torque.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictN.html
A force of one newton will accelerate a mass of one kilogram at the rate of one meter per second per second
I guess the easiest way to explain newton meters is if the rotating object had a thing sticking out from the axis that was one meter long, it would exert one Newton of force at the end.
I think we are talking probably about a motor here that is smaller than a small appliance motor, but larger than an R/C type motor, something about as big as your fist.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, physics was never my strong point.
I guess his last work was titled "Cancer Considered Harmful".
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Walking the fine line between funny and troll today.
Only you never figured out how it worked apparently.
It likely worked by an inductive or capactive sensing circuit.
I've sure never heard of a humidity detecting button.
Doesn't seem to bother these guys.
You know, you could just act like a normal person and use the little quote key next to the enter key. "See"?
I don't think you realize what I was talking about. The original poster said that "they had no right to bitch", i.e. they have no right to say what they will in an news article such as this one.
You are right, but I think everyone assumed that I was talking about the spam itself, and I wasn't, I was only talking about their speech in the article.
Very often!
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61 fatalities directly due to high school and college football from 1982-1996. 115 deaths from exertion due to playing football during the same period.
That's almost 200 kids that would be alive today if football was banned. The answer is obvious. If it saves just one life, we must ban football.
It hasn't stopped a constant assault of socialist liberal lawyers at Philip Morris, which has a market cap of 100 billion compared to MS 250 billion.
MO has a lot less cash on hand, only 300 million or so, but they are also an honest company that pays dividends, compared to the MS scam artists.
RMS has no objection to people selling GPL software. He encourages it in fact. You just have to abide by the license that applies to all redistribution, and you better be doubly sure if you are selling it, since the community is more likely to jump all over you.
What part of "I'm not arguing that spam is free speech" did you not understand?
I social change though, a "word on the street" that buying into the spam business is a sucker's game, will greatly reduce the amount of spam. It won't eliminate it, but it will greatly reduce it.