Sorry, CFAA. Under the wire fraud statute. The exact charges which were levelled against Aaron Swartz for writing a tool which violated the TOS of JSTOR.
I have no idea where you got that number, or why you think that there even is any limit below 100%. Do some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Engine#Efficiency Note how the graphs for a Carnot Engine start at ~40% and go up to ~75% as the inlet temperature rises.
If this is keeping with that, then they are telling the story from the adult perspective, because 'keeping the secret' until the end makes it necessary to leave out too much of the story when you're telling it by film. So instead the audience knows, but Ender doesn't, so we get to see his actions knowing entirely what the consequences are. It also integrates some of the Ender's Shadow elements, like more information about Bean.
In a way this is even more brutal than how the book tells it.
So you're saying that the process of giving birth is equally traumatic, both physically and mentally, to both mother and father, so they should both get the same amount of time off?
I find this topic extremely interesting, and it is a field I could see myself getting involved in, however my background is undergrad elec/mech with my MSc. in robotics/mapping/AI. I've also done a ton of simulation work via Robocode. What kind of background topics would I need to still learn to do this kind of work? I'm guessing quantum physics and chemistry along with some more hardcore comp-sci.
It doesn't help having a 90+% efficiency current driver if you are then sticking a big power-dissipating resistor in series with your LED. If you want high-efficiency current drivers look at standard switch-mode power supplies, something like this at a high frequency, possibly with another capacitor across the power supply; it will give you efficient, smooth PWM-based current control. Note, the LED doesn't see any PWM, but the regulator is PWM based, ie. a switch-mode power supply.
Last time I entered Switzerland they saw the color of my passport and waved me through without even checking it was mine. Of course, that was a few years back, and they may now be stricter to comply with Schengen rules.
Sorry, but that simply isn't true. How do you think they make constant-current drivers that operate at high efficiency? PWM and an LC filter and possibly a diode to control the kick on the L. If you want to make the inductor and capacitor nice and small just do the PWM at high frequency. You can do lower frequencies without any flickering easily enough, but you need big L and C, which gets bulky and expensive.
You sort of have it. Cricket fields are actually bigger, because you can hit the ball in any direction, instead of just the 90 degrees in front of you, like baseball does. Also, instead of having 3 'strikes', if they manage to 'bowl' the ball so that it hits the 'wickets' (stick things behind the batter) the batter is out immediately. Otherwise he gets to keep on batting, so having just 2 really good batters (with everybody else terrible) on your team can win you a match. If they hit a 'homerun' it is known as a '6' and it gets them 6 runs. If they hit it past the boundaries but it bounces along the way it is only a '4'. Also, there are 2 people batting at all times, and either one of them can be knocked 'out' if the wicket on their side gets hit by the ball while they are beyond a sort of 'safe line'. Of course, if the ball came straight from the bowler and the batter misses it and it hits the wicket, it doesn't matter if he is inside of the safe line, he is still out. The bowler, when throwing, or 'bowling', the ball, has to keep his arm straight until he lets go. He can take a run-up, but he has to let go before he passes the wicket on the far side. Similar rules in regards to catching a ball hit by the batter before it hits the ground, if you do the batter is out. Similar rules in regards to balls which aren't thrown to the batter accurately, except for cricket they count every 'wide ball' as a run. There are two varieties of games, the fast-paced "50 overs" and the slower several-game matches. The slow games are finished when every team member (usually 11) have batted and are now 'out', after which it is up to the other team to try to beat the number of runs the first team got. So unlike baseball, which might have pretty even scores all the way through, in cricket the first team does all their batting, then the other team does all their batting. An "over" is 6 balls, so "50 overs" means that each team gets to face 6*50 balls and then they are out, although they can be out sooner if they run out of batters. Because of this the batters are often much more reckless and play a more aggressive game, trying to get maximum runs/ball instead of maximum runs/out. Typical scores in a cricket game might be 150 - 350 runs per team, although sometimes they get up into the 400s and obviously a hugely imbalanced match might result in even higher/lower scores. Theoretically, a non-over-limited match might never end if two good enough batters are batting.
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That was the MIT component of the charges. There are also the JSTOR components, which were to do with violating the TOS.
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron's_Law#Aaron.27s_Law_proposal
"cheap"
The shareholders are already paying tax on that profit in the dividends they get, so I don't really see why they should pay twice.
Sorry, CFAA. Under the wire fraud statute. The exact charges which were levelled against Aaron Swartz for writing a tool which violated the TOS of JSTOR.
No, it would be suing Ford because their SatNav routed everybody in the Mountain-View area through Google's parking lots.
Yeah, but writing a tool to break a website's TOS, and distributing that tool, makes you criminally liable under the DMCA.
Frequencies of 30 - 140 MHz. And to think that it has only been 20 years since our CPUs weren't even that fast.
I have no idea where you got that number, or why you think that there even is any limit below 100%.
Do some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Engine#Efficiency Note how the graphs for a Carnot Engine start at ~40% and go up to ~75% as the inlet temperature rises.
The formula for efficiency for an ideal carnot engine is 1 - Tc/Th, with Tc and Th in K. So if you have a cold side of 0K, your efficiency is 100%.
It depends on the temperature differential. The higher the difference the more efficient the engine.
A single example is not a stereotype. What you're doing, interpreting his books differently because of his religious beliefs, is just as bad.
I'm sorry, but if you construe that as "gay bashing", you seriously need to get a grip.
It isn't a teen flick. Read Card's interview here where he says that is what Hollywood wanted, but he was holding out.
There's an interview with Card where he mentions the script he wrote, all the way back in 1998:
http://hatrack.com/research/interviews/1998-scott-nicholson.shtml
If this is keeping with that, then they are telling the story from the adult perspective, because 'keeping the secret' until the end makes it necessary to leave out too much of the story when you're telling it by film. So instead the audience knows, but Ender doesn't, so we get to see his actions knowing entirely what the consequences are. It also integrates some of the Ender's Shadow elements, like more information about Bean.
In a way this is even more brutal than how the book tells it.
So you're saying that the process of giving birth is equally traumatic, both physically and mentally, to both mother and father, so they should both get the same amount of time off?
Yes, but in the mean time you earn the interest on the $400k. Just make sure you mine on the first day of the month and pay the bill on the last.
I find this topic extremely interesting, and it is a field I could see myself getting involved in, however my background is undergrad elec/mech with my MSc. in robotics/mapping/AI. I've also done a ton of simulation work via Robocode. What kind of background topics would I need to still learn to do this kind of work? I'm guessing quantum physics and chemistry along with some more hardcore comp-sci.
Couldn't you account for the hysteresis effect by reading the value first, then changing the strength of the write accordingly?
It doesn't help having a 90+% efficiency current driver if you are then sticking a big power-dissipating resistor in series with your LED. If you want high-efficiency current drivers look at standard switch-mode power supplies, something like this at a high frequency, possibly with another capacitor across the power supply; it will give you efficient, smooth PWM-based current control. Note, the LED doesn't see any PWM, but the regulator is PWM based, ie. a switch-mode power supply.
Last time I entered Switzerland they saw the color of my passport and waved me through without even checking it was mine. Of course, that was a few years back, and they may now be stricter to comply with Schengen rules.
Sorry, but that simply isn't true. How do you think they make constant-current drivers that operate at high efficiency? PWM and an LC filter and possibly a diode to control the kick on the L. If you want to make the inductor and capacitor nice and small just do the PWM at high frequency. You can do lower frequencies without any flickering easily enough, but you need big L and C, which gets bulky and expensive.
Somebody please mod this up...
Yeah, but they dim using a triac instead of PWM. There's a big difference, particularly if you want to PWM faster than the AC frequency.
PWM + LC filter = current drive
You sort of have it. Cricket fields are actually bigger, because you can hit the ball in any direction, instead of just the 90 degrees in front of you, like baseball does. Also, instead of having 3 'strikes', if they manage to 'bowl' the ball so that it hits the 'wickets' (stick things behind the batter) the batter is out immediately. Otherwise he gets to keep on batting, so having just 2 really good batters (with everybody else terrible) on your team can win you a match.
If they hit a 'homerun' it is known as a '6' and it gets them 6 runs. If they hit it past the boundaries but it bounces along the way it is only a '4'. Also, there are 2 people batting at all times, and either one of them can be knocked 'out' if the wicket on their side gets hit by the ball while they are beyond a sort of 'safe line'. Of course, if the ball came straight from the bowler and the batter misses it and it hits the wicket, it doesn't matter if he is inside of the safe line, he is still out.
The bowler, when throwing, or 'bowling', the ball, has to keep his arm straight until he lets go. He can take a run-up, but he has to let go before he passes the wicket on the far side.
Similar rules in regards to catching a ball hit by the batter before it hits the ground, if you do the batter is out. Similar rules in regards to balls which aren't thrown to the batter accurately, except for cricket they count every 'wide ball' as a run.
There are two varieties of games, the fast-paced "50 overs" and the slower several-game matches. The slow games are finished when every team member (usually 11) have batted and are now 'out', after which it is up to the other team to try to beat the number of runs the first team got. So unlike baseball, which might have pretty even scores all the way through, in cricket the first team does all their batting, then the other team does all their batting. An "over" is 6 balls, so "50 overs" means that each team gets to face 6*50 balls and then they are out, although they can be out sooner if they run out of batters. Because of this the batters are often much more reckless and play a more aggressive game, trying to get maximum runs/ball instead of maximum runs/out. Typical scores in a cricket game might be 150 - 350 runs per team, although sometimes they get up into the 400s and obviously a hugely imbalanced match might result in even higher/lower scores. Theoretically, a non-over-limited match might never end if two good enough batters are batting.
I think that covered most of it.