Metamods: this post was victim of an organized offtopic attack, with 3 offtopic mods coming within an hour, more than a day after all of the positive moderations.
I think we can stop with seti when we've visited all the planets in this galaxy. Picking up broadcasts from other galaxies is pretty pointless assuming the speed of light is really the limit.
Help me out, I don't know the physics: Does the signal vs noise issue hide the fact that you are using a powerful transmitter to cross large distances? Power on a channel that has no naturally occurring phenomenon to make it would seem to be a dead giveaway for intelligent communication.
Wow, that was a crazy response, angry much? First, I didn't make the original accusation, I responded to the employees' counterclaim.
Second, I actually had direct experience of paypal's fraud handling problems. And so I'll treat them as once burnt, twice shy. Personally, I'm through about a half shy, so another shy and a half to go before I'll use paypal again.
Third, reputation is exactly the problem. Once something is out there, you really need to work hard to fix it. This is precisely why things like the BBB/Angie's list work. Reputation is important, and it is something you have to work hard to maintain.
I don't know how it is now, but paypal had, for a long time, a 'screw you' policy with regards to fraud. That is, if you got defrauded in a paypal transaction, paypal would do nothing, pretty much the opposite of the experience you'll have if you're ever defrauded in a visa transaction.
They became the dominant provider of social games, to the tune of being able to pay about a thousand salaries, and are close to becoming the largest gaming company in the world (I think they only have 2 ahead of them, and they are closing in fast).
Yikes, that's almost twice as wide-favoring as 16:9 (which I think is already too wide favoring). Who on earth wants their format so asymmetric? Pretty cool, though.
Thanks for the intelligent and thoughtful response, I'm sorry this got moderated flamebait, and I hope some moderator will see this post and reverse that travesty.
Yeah... this kind of 'shorten your shotgun barrel til you hit something' research bugs me.
This is so easily tested, too. Pick a loser country with a relatively small population, and start infecting their water supplies with toxo. Watch them start to win year after year. Case proved.
Just because there is at least one wrong side, doesn't mean that the lawyer for that side is wrong. If your goal is to earn money (and for many lawyers it is), you may take the losing side for profit, and win even if you lose in court. Or (rarer) you may care about the process, and take a losing case because it is the right thing to do.
It's process, not voters. In the primary, there is no need to worry about anyone from the other party. So you can campaign as far to your side as will increase your votes, which is very often nearly all the way to that side. You are campaigning to gather votes. Get out and vote for me!
Now you come to the main election. Suddenly you have to avoid motivating the voters from the opposite party from caring enough to defeat you. Now you are campaigning to avoid gathering votes for your opponent. Don't bother to get out of bed and vote against me, I'm not that bad!
It does take a little training. The poster may not have had good exposure to the tools of research yet. There are many worthy students who receive poor training at their first college/university. About 9 out of 10 colleges and universities just absolutely suck.
At the PhD level, what you want to do is research the journals. Your university will have access to them. You want to see what your potential mentor has published recently to see if their interests align with yours, then dig deeper on a small set of people (target less than 20 based on recent publications, then research those individuals in detail). Narrow it down to the best 10. Send them email asking them a (small) set of questions. The right mentor will take the time to answer a quick email, even from a random potential student. Narrow it down to 5, and apply to all of their programs. Tell them why you are doing so, it will increase your odds of getting in.
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Metamods: this post was victim of an organized offtopic attack, with 3 offtopic mods coming within an hour, more than a day after all of the positive moderations.
Crap, we're screwed. We are not good at planning ahead. If only we'd had more time.
I think we can stop with seti when we've visited all the planets in this galaxy. Picking up broadcasts from other galaxies is pretty pointless assuming the speed of light is really the limit.
Help me out, I don't know the physics:
Does the signal vs noise issue hide the fact that you are using a powerful transmitter to cross large distances? Power on a channel that has no naturally occurring phenomenon to make it would seem to be a dead giveaway for intelligent communication.
It's a good question. I suspect zynga is headed for implosion ... their market is wide open to competitors.
Wow, that was a crazy response, angry much?
First, I didn't make the original accusation, I responded to the employees' counterclaim.
Second, I actually had direct experience of paypal's fraud handling problems. And so I'll treat them as once burnt, twice shy. Personally, I'm through about a half shy, so another shy and a half to go before I'll use paypal again.
Third, reputation is exactly the problem. Once something is out there, you really need to work hard to fix it. This is precisely why things like the BBB/Angie's list work. Reputation is important, and it is something you have to work hard to maintain.
Root canal!
Good for them if they've changed ... of course, the problem is that once you have a reputation ...
I don't know how it is now, but paypal had, for a long time, a 'screw you' policy with regards to fraud. That is, if you got defrauded in a paypal transaction, paypal would do nothing, pretty much the opposite of the experience you'll have if you're ever defrauded in a visa transaction.
They became the dominant provider of social games, to the tune of being able to pay about a thousand salaries, and are close to becoming the largest gaming company in the world (I think they only have 2 ahead of them, and they are closing in fast).
Yikes, that's almost twice as wide-favoring as 16:9 (which I think is already too wide favoring). Who on earth wants their format so asymmetric? Pretty cool, though.
Indeed, and TFS specifically says 'available'. Not 'commercialized' or anything more specific. 8K video is clearly 'available'.
Who in the heck moderated this off-topic? How could this possibly be any more on-topic? It directly refutes a claim made in the summary!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hi-Vision
4k video is so legacy.
You can even fight their patent if you can prove you developed it first, whether or not they knew you had done so. It's called prior art.
Nah, we cared, we're just powerless. We've turned over most of congress a couple of times now and we're still stuck with the same stupid laws.
Thanks for the intelligent and thoughtful response, I'm sorry this got moderated flamebait, and I hope some moderator will see this post and reverse that travesty.
Yeah ... this kind of 'shorten your shotgun barrel til you hit something' research bugs me.
This is so easily tested, too. Pick a loser country with a relatively small population, and start infecting their water supplies with toxo. Watch them start to win year after year. Case proved.
Just because there is at least one wrong side, doesn't mean that the lawyer for that side is wrong. If your goal is to earn money (and for many lawyers it is), you may take the losing side for profit, and win even if you lose in court. Or (rarer) you may care about the process, and take a losing case because it is the right thing to do.
It's process, not voters. In the primary, there is no need to worry about anyone from the other party. So you can campaign as far to your side as will increase your votes, which is very often nearly all the way to that side. You are campaigning to gather votes. Get out and vote for me!
Now you come to the main election. Suddenly you have to avoid motivating the voters from the opposite party from caring enough to defeat you. Now you are campaigning to avoid gathering votes for your opponent. Don't bother to get out of bed and vote against me, I'm not that bad!
It does take a little training. The poster may not have had good exposure to the tools of research yet. There are many worthy students who receive poor training at their first college/university. About 9 out of 10 colleges and universities just absolutely suck.
My wife has her PhD in clinical psychology.
At the PhD level, what you want to do is research the journals. Your university will have access to them. You want to see what your potential mentor has published recently to see if their interests align with yours, then dig deeper on a small set of people (target less than 20 based on recent publications, then research those individuals in detail). Narrow it down to the best 10. Send them email asking them a (small) set of questions. The right mentor will take the time to answer a quick email, even from a random potential student. Narrow it down to 5, and apply to all of their programs. Tell them why you are doing so, it will increase your odds of getting in.
That's not necessarily true. Since this isn't nuclear, it's chemical. So, there are multiple ways this could be untrue:
1) It could be a slow charge process with a symmetric and slow discharge.
2) It could be a fast charge with no symmetric fast discharge.
I think you need to learn what and means.
Feel free to do more reading. Live in the real world.