When I started being able to watch instantly with NetFlix, it was made clear that this was a free add-on to the main DVD-by-mail account I'd signed up for. That is, it's not even a "rental".
Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, especially if they really do go to a download-only model.
As someone who might be an H1B visa holder in the not-too-distant future, what's your problem with them? Is it that we didn't -start out- in the U.S., or that we might leave in the future, or that we're sending envelopes stuffed with cash back home in the mean time? While here, we're paying taxes and consuming locally bought (not locally produced, usually) products just like everyone else...
In addition to the other examples in prior replies, it also sounds like the multiple-meta keys combos used to generate hosts of single-character operators in the APL computer programming language:
I was using it in the mid-1990s, but the language has been around snce the 1960s, and for much of that time (IIRC) has used Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt etc to generate the extra characters needed. The company that supplied our implementation even packaged key-sized stickers that showed all the secondary and tertiary (and quadrenary?) uses of eack key.
It's perfectly okay to use "it's" to signal possession.
Did you even read the article you linked to? They specifically say that nouns (like Microsoft and committee) use an apostrophe for possession, and pronouns (like it) don't. "It's" means exactly one thing: "it is".
I submit to some physics journals (Physical Review D, for example). They -prefer- LaTeX source with.eps figures. Though I use BibTeX with an external.bib database for references, I explicitly cut-and-paste the contents of the resulting.bbl file into the main paper draft.
I -think- they'll allow PDF or postscript submission of the whole thing, but it's slower to process, and they might add charges.
OT, but have people completely forgotten that "te-year anniversary" is as bad as "PIN number" and "ATM machine"? The submitter meant "tenth anniversary".
Without committing myself to a particular level of pro-[choice|life]-ness, I would disagree with the upper ("more moral") end of your chart for a few reasons:
(1) Hair-splitting: Incest shouldn't be a separate category here. Either it's Rape of a Minor, assuming one of the parties -can't- consent, or it's Rape if one of the parties -doesn't- consent, or it's just icky consensual brother-sister stuff. I never understood why it's always trotted out like it's a whole new category.
(2) Life of the mother, in my opinion, is a much more compelling reason for termination than anything to do with rape (assuming the two don't overlap).
Also from Ireland, but living in the U.S. (legally) for a few years now. Though I have an RSI, I think what you're describing has really happened since I last worked there.
For the most part, I agree with what you've said, but I have one minor quibble:
As a citizen, I should have the right to live my life free from interaction with the government, not bound to its whim by bureaucracy.
If your rights in Ireland (for example) are dependent wholly or in part on being an Irish citizen, then there's a bootstrapping problem. Without this number (or ID card, or passport, or whatever), how does anyone -know- you're an Irish citizen?
This is the same reason that I believe the only way for sensible border checks in the U.S. (both to Canada and Mexico) should -demand- a passport from -everyone- crossing the border. Right now, they just ask "U.S. citizen?" and if I wanted, I could probably pass myself off as being from a northern state.
Once they have some experience with this simulator I'm sure they will move on to spinning black holes.
True. In fact, some steps have already been taken in this direction by other groups. For instance, my group at U.T. Brownsville -- whose non-spinning simulations were published simultaneously with the NASA results (but we don't have the same PR machine) -- have put up a preprint on the orbits of black-hole binaries where the individual holes have spins parallel to (or antiparallel to) the orbital angular momentum. Check it out here:
Basically, right now it seems like adding spins doesn't make the simulations much more difficult per se, but it -does- mean they might take much longer to run: the greater the total angular momentum in the system, the longer the holes will orbit each other before merger, since they need to get rid of more excess angular momentum.
Further to the replies I've seen so far, another aspect of the stability of Einstein's equations on a computer is the presence of "gauge-violating" modes. Einstein's equations are massively redundant from the point of view of the underlying physics.
Say there are actually two "radiative" degress of freedom in a vacuum simulation: these correspond to the two polarisations of gravitational radiation produced in the system and observable infinitely far away. The other N modes will represent nothing physical at all -- just unpredictable warping of the numerical coordinates used -- and aren't constrained by the Laws of Physics, as Scotty might say. In particular, they can have unphysical speeds (like 0 , sqrt(2) or 1/sqrt(2) times the speed of light), and the zero-speed ones might just sit where they are, being fed by feedback from other modes, until their values exceed what's representable on your computer. Boom.
This is somewhat late to the discussion, but I wanted to emphasise that this the research was done in University College, Dublin ("UCD", also known as "NUI Dublin"). The submitted blurb says "University of Dublin" (a.k.a. "Trinity College"), which isn't the same place at all. Think "Penn State University" vs. "University of Pennsylvania".
He was also persuaded to sign an agreement that would allow the retailer to charge him an extra $100 if he left bad feedback.
Thinning of the herd.
Having read (most of) TFA, it was another dissatisfied customer -- not the author of the main article -- who signed this agreement. But yeah, that's just stupid.
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When I started being able to watch instantly with NetFlix, it was made clear that this was a free add-on to the main DVD-by-mail account I'd signed up for. That is, it's not even a "rental".
Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, especially if they really do go to a download-only model.
For the journals I've dealt with, extra charges are only for colours in the printed version.
True, but the legal English name of the republic of Ireland is "Ireland", despite the fact that it doesn't cover the whole island.
As someone who might be an H1B visa holder in the not-too-distant future, what's your problem with them? Is it that we didn't -start out- in the U.S., or that we might leave in the future, or that we're sending envelopes stuffed with cash back home in the mean time? While here, we're paying taxes and consuming locally bought (not locally produced, usually) products just like everyone else ...
It's Nazis, not Nazi's, BTW.
In addition to the other examples in prior replies, it also sounds like the multiple-meta keys combos used to generate hosts of single-character operators in the APL computer programming language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
I was using it in the mid-1990s, but the language has been around snce the 1960s, and for much of that time (IIRC) has used Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt etc to generate the extra characters needed. The company that supplied our implementation even packaged key-sized stickers that showed all the secondary and tertiary (and quadrenary?) uses of eack key.
So I can enforce truthiness simply by using my own CSS? Cool.
True. Sorry.
Did you even read the article you linked to? They specifically say that nouns (like Microsoft and committee) use an apostrophe for possession, and pronouns (like it) don't. "It's" means exactly one thing: "it is".
I submit to some physics journals (Physical Review D, for example). They -prefer- LaTeX source with .eps figures. Though I use BibTeX with an external .bib database for references, I explicitly cut-and-paste the contents of the resulting .bbl file into the main paper draft.
I -think- they'll allow PDF or postscript submission of the whole thing, but it's slower to process, and they might add charges.
Somebody should have told this guy about OSS.
Man, are you behind the times; it's been the CIA for years.
OT, but have people completely forgotten that "te-year anniversary" is as bad as "PIN number" and "ATM machine"? The submitter meant "tenth anniversary".
I don't know
Without committing myself to a particular level of pro-[choice|life]-ness, I would disagree with the upper ("more moral") end of your chart for a few reasons:
(1) Hair-splitting: Incest shouldn't be a separate category here. Either it's Rape of a Minor, assuming one of the parties -can't- consent, or it's Rape if one of the parties -doesn't- consent, or it's just icky consensual brother-sister stuff. I never understood why it's always trotted out like it's a whole new category.
(2) Life of the mother, in my opinion, is a much more compelling reason for termination than anything to do with rape (assuming the two don't overlap).
If it's being trained to bowl, it'll probably expect you to cook its breakfast.
cause is incorrect: it's an abbreviation, and requires a leading apostrophe.
For the most part, I agree with what you've said, but I have one minor quibble:
If your rights in Ireland (for example) are dependent wholly or in part on being an Irish citizen, then there's a bootstrapping problem. Without this number (or ID card, or passport, or whatever), how does anyone -know- you're an Irish citizen?
This is the same reason that I believe the only way for sensible border checks in the U.S. (both to Canada and Mexico) should -demand- a passport from -everyone- crossing the border. Right now, they just ask "U.S. citizen?" and if I wanted, I could probably pass myself off as being from a northern state.
Once they have some experience with this simulator I'm sure they will move on to spinning black holes.
True. In fact, some steps have already been taken in this direction by other groups. For instance, my group at U.T. Brownsville -- whose non-spinning simulations were published simultaneously with the NASA results (but we don't have the same PR machine) -- have put up a preprint on the orbits of black-hole binaries where the individual holes have spins parallel to (or antiparallel to) the orbital angular momentum. Check it out here:
http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604012
Basically, right now it seems like adding spins doesn't make the simulations much more difficult per se, but it -does- mean they might take much longer to run: the greater the total angular momentum in the system, the longer the holes will orbit each other before merger, since they need to get rid of more excess angular momentum.
Say there are actually two "radiative" degress of freedom in a vacuum simulation: these correspond to the two polarisations of gravitational radiation produced in the system and observable infinitely far away. The other N modes will represent nothing physical at all -- just unpredictable warping of the numerical coordinates used -- and aren't constrained by the Laws of Physics, as Scotty might say. In particular, they can have unphysical speeds (like 0 , sqrt(2) or 1/sqrt(2) times the speed of light), and the zero-speed ones might just sit where they are, being fed by feedback from other modes, until their values exceed what's representable on your computer. Boom.
This is somewhat late to the discussion, but I wanted to emphasise that this the research was done in University College, Dublin ("UCD", also known as "NUI Dublin"). The submitted blurb says "University of Dublin" (a.k.a. "Trinity College"), which isn't the same place at all. Think "Penn State University" vs. "University of Pennsylvania".
Indeed. Patently ridiculous.
Thanks; I'd never heard it before, but that could be a U.K. vs U.S. thing. Which is why spellchecking is so important ...
Umm
Having read (most of) TFA, it was another dissatisfied customer -- not the author of the main article -- who signed this agreement. But yeah, that's just stupid.