Sony has leveraged its positions in both media and consumer electronics to push an admittedly superior to DVD-Audio format (SACD). Phillips beat RAMBUS to the "standardize my patents, suckers" game with CD. JVC with VHS, etc...
Matsushita and Sony were both found to have scale monopolies (price-fixing) in Europe. Japanese business is famous not only for its oligopolistic practices (keiretsu), but also its strong influence over the decisions of the modern Japanese government.
Besides, the root comment is an obvious troll. Admit that governments shelter their domestic businesses and move along.
Yeah, shame they didn't think about doing this in December. God, that would have been great.
A couple of years ago, the Bank of Japan's Washington, DC office scheduled their annual holiday party on December 7th and sent out invitations before realizing that they had invited economists from every nation to a bash on Pearl Harbor Day.
I would imagine that the creator is playing on every state in quantum mechanics being a superposition of eigenstates of observables.
Or he is attempting to make some play on eigenvectors, but I don't think that this music is composed by some sort of linear transform in the space of the musical components. I'm not sure. Go check out Mathworld's writeup on Eigenvectors if you want to pursue that path of marketing madness. Maybe it would make more sense if the stream wasn't completely slashdotted.
If he makes off without getting all that money taken away, I think we need to "slashdot effect" his house with porn, spam, packages with illegal substances, junk mail, phone calls, etc. etc.
After all of this, do you think that he deserves to get people's hard earned porn and drugs for free? I might start a urine-in-a-jar campaign, though...
Many of the books published by Dover are written for readers who are not specialists in the field in question. As a result, they are quite easy to read at a fair pace and provide a good picture of the core ideas behind fairly developed subject matter.
Though they are relatively inexpensive, they can be quite addicting. Pace yourself.
The pixels are square on these machines, with very rare exception.
If the text is too small on a 1400x1050 screen, increase the font size (Large Fonts). Properly written software will take this into account and display the text accordingly. And, to note, most commercial software handles this correctly (not my companies', but, hey...).
It was my assumption that this was intended for people who were asleep.
Do the best drivers beat ABS in absolute stopping distance on a flat surface?
Rarely.
ABS is generally not as useful as manual braking in dry race conditions because of the inability of ABS to determine desired dynamic behavior. Controlled slip can be extremely beneficial in race conditions, as it can allow the driver to rotate the car more effectively (trail braking). Don't mistake this for stopping ability. A multi-channel braking system can keep each wheel at maximum static adhesion (just a bit past it can be beneficial), making for absurdly short braking distances. The best race drivers make use of left-foot braking, which allows them to apply power to one set of wheels while braking, effectively acting as a brake balance controller. Though four-way manual braking systems have been attempted, I have yet to see one serve a driver effectively.
Rain is a completely different story. Touring car races in the rain are won by the cars with ABS. Just watch the TVR Tuscan series to see what happens to fairly skilled drivers without traction control or ABS. When the winner of the race has spun off of the track multiple times, that's racing!
Someone some time ago talked about "Crapster." We should look for prior art on this. It's a simple, non-novel patent. It's obvious, and offensively simple.
Simple enough, set up a website. Something like Karyn's mess of self pity, and collect for support.
Document the events in question, and supply mechanisms to petition the school district, the courts, and the local media. Unfortunately, since the DBS suffering girl is just that, a girl, you probably wouldn't want to post her name (unless it has been posted elsewhere in the media). Of course, that wouldn't keep you from posting her mom's name. If you want help designing the site and setting stuff up, I'll gladly pitch in.
Once you have it set up, I'll pay for Tom's next beer.
Whenever you are visually representing data, and providing a means by which to manipulate the representation, consistency is paramount. If you have three object types: A, B, C that are represented in the same visual space, an action on A should have an equivalent effect if taken on B or C.
This was the primary concern we had when I was working on Vegas Video. At first, we treated audio and video differently, thinking that different media types would require different interfaces, but we quickly realized that most actions for one media type had a corresponding action for the other (i.e. Fade out). When a coherent interface element did not exist, we extended the user interface for the given media type. We never allowed an interface element to exhibit different behaviors for different media types.
Of course, Vegas Video is not the end-all of user interfaces, but I learned a lot about simplicity and consistence in interface design.
It's the difference between a complex application and a powerful one.
It might be a waste to respond, but CPU temperature readings should always be treated as locally relative. I have seen variances of as much as 8C between two identical motherboards in an otherwise identical system (pull one board, try the other).
Honestly, you might be able to live with the noise, but some can't (i.e. audio recording computer). When a sandwiched and suspended Barracuda IV with maximum acoustic management is the loudest thing in your computer, you can get on this guy about running his processor too hot.
If it is something as silly as having a really big pad into which you index with a key, or double (triple, quadruple, etc...) flip/rotate/seed from, you might not want to bother wasting your time trying to patent it.
Of course, the USPTO will let you patent just about anything, so it might be worth it anyway.
Honestly, most of the people here (the ones who aren't joking) are right. Patent it first, and then figure out what you want to do with it. Don't show it to some company with a flimsy NDA. At most, show it to someone you trust so they can tell you that you're off your rocker.
Such a shameless plug would come as an editorial that merely references The Attention Economy? Was this just another gimmick to sell a book, or is it trying to make some sort of postmodern point?
Coming out of a tunnel on the Penna turnpike, my eMap jumped (pretty far), and I now have a top speed in its odometer of 976mph. Given that my car is only capable of travelling 145 miles in an hour, I'd have to say that I wasn't going that fast.
Andy Green would probably have something to say about me smashing his record though.
This is a very important concept in superconducters. As the flux (magnetic field) penetration increases, the resistance of the superconducter increases in a roughly ohmic nature. Superconductors "pin" flux in vortices in order to prevent this resistance, which leads to dissapitave loss. For movies of this go here, and for images of the Z component of flux in High Tc superconductors, go where I worked before I entered the private sector.
Please, do your research, I've actually done mine.
While it is very impressive, this discovery, it is important to note that a great deal of work will need to be done to make this a viable material.
A cursory glance at the pre-publish pdf shows that, even when zero field cooled (brought below transition temperature in the absence of a magnetic field, the field applied after the material is already cold), the MgB2 pellets created by Nagamatsu et al are fairly susceptible to flux penetration. Make no mistake, MgB2 materials will be perfected, and may compete with NbTi in the future, but they are still quite a ways off.
If you take the time to take a look at figure 4 of the writeup though, you will clearly see that MgB2 is superconducting, but Niobium Titanium wires have proven useful up to ~45T (tesla), whereas, in a 10 Oe (oersted) field, MgB2 ZFC was succeptible to roughly 1.2T.
The International Trade Commission must have something to say about this.
The second paragraph of the New Spankticist article cited notes that selling at different prices in different countries is a regular practice, but this is illegal.
The ITC (or any other international trade group: UNCITRAL ) doesn't appreciate dumping, so any price change must be justified by cost, to a point. Granted, Sony would never be able to pull of the PS2 if they had to sell it for $700, but the price is roughly the same everywhere. Anyway...
They're not the tops of the pops (Viewsonic VP181), but they're pretty damn good, and as low as ~1450USD. Most notable is the DELL 1701 FP for $1449 .
Just use mulitple monitors with that, and I'm sure you'll be happier than if you dropped the same wad for a single VP181. That's the decision I'm making right now.
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Sounds like a Discordian plot breed fear of and contempt for modern software.
Sony has leveraged its positions in both media and consumer electronics to push an admittedly superior to DVD-Audio format (SACD). Phillips beat RAMBUS to the "standardize my patents, suckers" game with CD. JVC with VHS, etc...
Matsushita and Sony were both found to have scale monopolies (price-fixing) in Europe. Japanese business is famous not only for its oligopolistic practices (keiretsu), but also its strong influence over the decisions of the modern Japanese government.
Besides, the root comment is an obvious troll. Admit that governments shelter their domestic businesses and move along.
Yeah, shame they didn't think about doing this in December. God, that would have been great.
A couple of years ago, the Bank of Japan's Washington, DC office scheduled their annual holiday party on December 7th and sent out invitations before realizing that they had invited economists from every nation to a bash on Pearl Harbor Day.
Needless to say, Greenspan did not attend.
I would imagine that the creator is playing on every state in quantum mechanics being a superposition of eigenstates of observables.
Or he is attempting to make some play on eigenvectors, but I don't think that this music is composed by some sort of linear transform in the space of the musical components. I'm not sure. Go check out Mathworld's writeup on Eigenvectors if you want to pursue that path of marketing madness. Maybe it would make more sense if the stream wasn't completely slashdotted.
Many of the books published by Dover are written for readers who are not specialists in the field in question. As a result, they are quite easy to read at a fair pace and provide a good picture of the core ideas behind fairly developed subject matter.
Though they are relatively inexpensive, they can be quite addicting. Pace yourself.
The pixels are square on these machines, with very rare exception.
If the text is too small on a 1400x1050 screen, increase the font size (Large Fonts). Properly written software will take this into account and display the text accordingly. And, to note, most commercial software handles this correctly (not my companies', but, hey...).
It was my assumption that this was intended for people who were asleep.
Do the best drivers beat ABS in absolute stopping distance on a flat surface?
Rarely.
ABS is generally not as useful as manual braking in dry race conditions because of the inability of ABS to determine desired dynamic behavior. Controlled slip can be extremely beneficial in race conditions, as it can allow the driver to rotate the car more effectively (trail braking). Don't mistake this for stopping ability. A multi-channel braking system can keep each wheel at maximum static adhesion (just a bit past it can be beneficial), making for absurdly short braking distances. The best race drivers make use of left-foot braking, which allows them to apply power to one set of wheels while braking, effectively acting as a brake balance controller. Though four-way manual braking systems have been attempted, I have yet to see one serve a driver effectively.
Rain is a completely different story. Touring car races in the rain are won by the cars with ABS. Just watch the TVR Tuscan series to see what happens to fairly skilled drivers without traction control or ABS. When the winner of the race has spun off of the track multiple times, that's racing!
I always like to see spelling/grammar corrections with errors in them.
Your all set dude! should read: You're all set, dude!
Impressive.
Do a tiny bit of digging and you'll find a 15% off coupon as well.
Go check out fat wallet.
He probably put together a machine from the parts of other dead powerbooks and threw it in the oven.
Realizing that everyone would call him a moron, he blamed some woman and got himself on slashdot.
Doesn't everyone here want to get on slashdot?
Someone some time ago talked about "Crapster." We should look for prior art on this. It's a simple, non-novel patent. It's obvious, and offensively simple.
Simple enough, set up a website. Something like Karyn's mess of self pity, and collect for support.
Document the events in question, and supply mechanisms to petition the school district, the courts, and the local media. Unfortunately, since the DBS suffering girl is just that, a girl, you probably wouldn't want to post her name (unless it has been posted elsewhere in the media). Of course, that wouldn't keep you from posting her mom's name. If you want help designing the site and setting stuff up, I'll gladly pitch in.
Once you have it set up, I'll pay for Tom's next beer.
Whenever you are visually representing data, and providing a means by which to manipulate the representation, consistency is paramount. If you have three object types: A, B, C that are represented in the same visual space, an action on A should have an equivalent effect if taken on B or C.
This was the primary concern we had when I was working on Vegas Video. At first, we treated audio and video differently, thinking that different media types would require different interfaces, but we quickly realized that most actions for one media type had a corresponding action for the other (i.e. Fade out). When a coherent interface element did not exist, we extended the user interface for the given media type. We never allowed an interface element to exhibit different behaviors for different media types.
Of course, Vegas Video is not the end-all of user interfaces, but I learned a lot about simplicity and consistence in interface design.
It's the difference between a complex application and a powerful one.
It might be a waste to respond, but CPU temperature readings should always be treated as locally relative. I have seen variances of as much as 8C between two identical motherboards in an otherwise identical system (pull one board, try the other).
Honestly, you might be able to live with the noise, but some can't (i.e. audio recording computer). When a sandwiched and suspended Barracuda IV with maximum acoustic management is the loudest thing in your computer, you can get on this guy about running his processor too hot.
If it is something as silly as having a really big pad into which you index with a key, or double (triple, quadruple, etc...) flip/rotate/seed from, you might not want to bother wasting your time trying to patent it.
Of course, the USPTO will let you patent just about anything, so it might be worth it anyway.
Honestly, most of the people here (the ones who aren't joking) are right. Patent it first, and then figure out what you want to do with it. Don't show it to some company with a flimsy NDA. At most, show it to someone you trust so they can tell you that you're off your rocker.
Offtopic:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
is known as Hanlon's Razor. If you want a bit more information, go here.
God bless everything2
Click and vote him UP!!!
Such a shameless plug would come as an editorial that merely references The Attention Economy? Was this just another gimmick to sell a book, or is it trying to make some sort of postmodern point?
Andy Green would probably have something to say about me smashing his record though.
but "flux penetration" is very much a real term.
This is a very important concept in superconducters. As the flux (magnetic field) penetration increases, the resistance of the superconducter increases in a roughly ohmic nature. Superconductors "pin" flux in vortices in order to prevent this resistance, which leads to dissapitave loss. For movies of this go here, and for images of the Z component of flux in High Tc superconductors, go where I worked before I entered the private sector.
Please, do your research, I've actually done mine.
While it is very impressive, this discovery, it is important to note that a great deal of work will need to be done to make this a viable material.
A cursory glance at the pre-publish pdf shows that, even when zero field cooled (brought below transition temperature in the absence of a magnetic field, the field applied after the material is already cold), the MgB2 pellets created by Nagamatsu et al are fairly susceptible to flux penetration. Make no mistake, MgB2 materials will be perfected, and may compete with NbTi in the future, but they are still quite a ways off.
If you take the time to take a look at figure 4 of the writeup though, you will clearly see that MgB2 is superconducting, but Niobium Titanium wires have proven useful up to ~45T (tesla), whereas, in a 10 Oe (oersted) field, MgB2 ZFC was succeptible to roughly 1.2T.
Still a damned fine piece of work.
The ITC (or any other international trade group: UNCITRAL ) doesn't appreciate dumping, so any price change must be justified by cost, to a point. Granted, Sony would never be able to pull of the PS2 if they had to sell it for $700, but the price is roughly the same everywhere. Anyway...
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at dell's gigabuys website , there are a few 17 inch panels that are well under two thousand dollars.
They're not the tops of the pops (Viewsonic VP181), but they're pretty damn good, and as low as ~1450USD. Most notable is the DELL 1701 FP for $1449 .
Just use mulitple monitors with that, and I'm sure you'll be happier than if you dropped the same wad for a single VP181. That's the decision I'm making right now.