Stock splits can and often do increse an investor's net value, because the reduced per stock price allows others to buy in, I'm sure that a lot of people find Google's stock price out of reach, but their stock desirable, I couldn't buy a block of google at 311.37, but at 45.00 I'd be very tempted and a 10:1 split would probably stablize about there.
WOW that was amazing, looked like laser-weld hitting a silver alloy! We should have saw it coming carbon is a pretty good absorber of photons, hit it with photons at 5500K the energy is either going to have to conduct away or radiate away. I wonder if they'll find that it takes a certain intensity of light to trigger an explosion, or if single walled carbon nano-tube just "evaporate" under normal room lights and nobody ever noticed.
Try holding one in your hand at 20,000 feet durring a thunderstorm. A thunder head is positivly charged, it induces a tremendous negative charge in the earth below, a lightning rod near the ground allows the charge to bleed off into the air through point effect, this is nothing like what would happen if you place a conductive cable from the earth to a point in space, even a near strike of lightning would induce horrendous currents in the cable through induction.
Better yet try convicing a congress-critter and 200 million taxpayer the your proposed a multi-billion dollar project will not go poof in the first tropical storm
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Description:
a) Electrical conductivity -- probably the best conductor of electricity on a nanoscale level that can ever be possible. Reade Advanced Materials
air builds up static charges on the order of 1KV/ft, think about one of these not quite in the middle of a cat5 hurricane!
That why the custer-dudes buy the hardware last. more than likely they've charted out projected number of teraflop they need, the rate available teraflops/dollar increase and advantages in solution time in strating earlyier with slow equipment vs. later with faster and pretty well know the optimum time to buy. That's usualy just before the next big tech advance makes what they just bought almost obsolete, and drops the price by a factor of ten just like the rest of us do.
I see several big problems (not counting the "new slashdot" some how mangeling the markup tags)
first to make the cable, you have too start in space naturaly, and as you make it, to get the cable to land at the cable connection on the ground, its center of gravity has to be in geo-syncronous orbit, which means the middle of the cable! so you have to make the cable twice as long as you need.
secondly the cable is supposed to be made out of carbon fiber nano-tubes. these fibers are insanely conductive and flamable, think of it as a lightning rod, 44,960 miles tall!
third the cable has to be connect at the earth's equator, a band of lattitude not known for it's geo-political stability
Forth the orbiting satelites will have to avoid the cable and all the orbiting space-junk cleaned up
the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. (I would suggest that indexing, is a form of research, the law also considers the following) In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;(note the law does not say it must be non-commercial)
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;(they are books)
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (showing less than a page out of a book)
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. (google
scans for free,
indexes for free,
links to the publishers website for free,
pays commisions to the rights holder for clicks on competitor's ads for free, google makes many books that would otherwise not be noticed findable so they are increasing the market, and all the free services provided by google definately increase the value significantly)
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors. Google stated mission is to make a "significant portion of the world's knowlege available to a signicant portion of the world's population" and they seem to be doing this with religious zeal while presenting everybody a win-win situation. If Google is screwing the copyright owners by doing all this, I wish they would screw me too!
There are accretion disks arround massive objects the are heated until glowing that would look like what your describing, but more technicaly a star is heated by nuclear fussion and it's hard to immagine conditions that extreme to allow an orbiting gass ring to acheive enough presure to enable fusion
Retired Army-National guard here, sometimes you just have to do what is right and worry about taking the burn later. Way to little can-do and way to much cover-your-ass involved with katrina. It boggles my mind that people with resources were stopped from helping, we were always taught "lead, follow or get the hell out of the way"
If the radius of the event horizon was big enough, tidal forces would be minimal, as tidal force is actualy the delta-G at two points such as your head and feet. So if the event horizon is big enough, you could "fall" into a black hole and survive becuase there wouldn't be enough tidal forces to hurt you. Now because time dilation is infinite at the event horizon, you'd never even get to the event horizon so getting past it would be out of the question. I guess that means that you can't fall into a black-hole, you an just get really close unless you had no mass. Getting all the mass sucked out of your matter would probably hurt alot.
So when the star impacts with Earth, the politicians will be safe in some space pod on the far side of the moon. I hope you took some stupid pills this morning, because if you thought being on the far side of the MOON would be any help to you if a STAR hit the EARTH with your native intelligence; your going to have some serious life-issues when you move out of your mother's basement!
If memory serves me correctly Giuliani was asking the Governor to scramble F16's to patrol the airspce over the city between the first impact and the second.
The real problem was not that fascist response of FEMA, but the lack of a fascist response. They should have rolled in and said evacuate the city now or go to meet the president at gitmo, we'll escort you there now.
It's a constitional thing concerning a navigatable waterway used in insterstate transportation. Another problem is the constitional prohibition on fund the army for more than (I think) three years; if it were under the navy, or tranportation then congress could fund the 50 year project for 50 years rather than 3 year increments. Usualy it's eassier to get funded once, when the project is new and interesting and once funded it's less likely to get cut; the current system alows congress to quietly just not renew funding once the project is old and boreing.
They are argueing apples and oranges; Symantec's report basicaly says the arithmatic sum of reported bugs is greater for mozilla and mozilla says the reported bugs multilpied by the time to fix raised to the power of severity is greater for mozzila.
I've found the degree of effective security for mozilla in the hands of my definition of typical user to be more than in IE, your definition of typical user will not be the same as mine. If you compare an astute, seasoned power-user using IE with a clueless arrogent fucktard on mozilla, IE will have more effective security.
IANAL but having a book implies a liciense from the copyright holder to have that book. If the libararies are contracted with google, who is provide a archival back-up of a legaly owned and liciensed book, I think this suit could prove very interesting
Sign up for the Google Print publisher program to attract new readers and boost book sales, earn new revenue from Google contextual ads, and interact more closely with your customers through direct 'Buy this Book' links back to your website.
Just send us a list of your books Once you sign up for a Google Print publisher account, just send us a list of the books that you want to be included in the program. Then you can either send us the books, upload them as PDF files, or we'll add them to your account when we scan them at a library. Learn more about the Google Print Library Project. When someone enters search terms that are relevant to the words and phrases in your book, the book appears highlighted on the search results. Clicking on one of your titles in the Google search results will lead users to the page from the book on which the search terms appear. For an example, see our screenshots.
further into the google says
When a user views one of your book's scanned pages, our technology "reads" that page and adds text ads for related products and services. And when people click on these ads, Google pays you.
Contextual ads complement your book and can earn you more money.
So basicaly google is
scanning the book for free
inserting them into the search base for free
giving them a link to the publisher ecomerce site for free
if I read an excerp from their book and click a competitor's ad on the excerp page, they get a commission on the competitors ad!for free
The bottom line is this is basicaly a whole prepackaged bussiness plan preimplimented for you! These publishers and authors would complain if they were hung with a new rope. The people using adsense should be pissed that publishers are being treated so much better than they are.
if they publish anything without the explicit permission is not equal to copyright law says that a small portion of a work may be copied What Google is doing actualy is probably wrong, because they are copying the content of an entire work yet I'm sure that when it gets to court they'll get all weaselly and say they didn't copy the bank pages or some silly other technicality that lawyers are so fond of.
Fuck that burn then damn bitches to the ground, I can't tell you how much those free-loading hippie book loaning pinko-faggots in libaraies piss me off, letting people read books for free is the most moraly reprehensible thing I can think of! We should lock them up with the pedophiles.
Tell you what cowboy, if reading 20 pages of a book kills your profits, somebody should put a bullet in that lame horse's head. If publishers had a clue, and pulled their heads out of their asses, they'd be scanning their own books after 2nd run and giving it to google and buying an ad to their own site's ebook version of the whole thing.
Google is clearly in the wrong if they publish anything without the explicit permission of any rights-holders in the domain of said publishing you are wrong and anyone who uses a phrase like the explicit permission of any rights-holders in the domain of said publishing knows enough case law to prove it off the top of their heads! +5, Interesting for a astro-turffer, givme a break
A friend brought over a "camcordered" movie, the quality was pathetic, if the movie itseld wasn't pathetic, I would have rented a viewable copy.
I rather doubt that completely eliminating online downloading is going to even a dent in movie piracy. From what I've seen the majority of it is burnt DVDs physical passed amongst friends
I had an uncle that beef farmed back a while before anyone thought about hormone accelerated, antibotic augmented "certified angus" meat eating abominations that passes for beef nowadays; he actualy wept when he sent one off to be slaughtered, but it was some seriously good eating meat.
With blood fed calves, and meat feed cattle, we might as well be eating cats. I could never figure out why women like cats so much, seems like if you took every masculine charecteristic that women hate, multiply it by 10 would'd have a cat's personality.
Some sites are coded in such a way that text resizing doesn't work in IE. Specifying font sizes is a bad thing to do accesability-wise, using relative sizing is much easier for most of us. also not everyone has video resolution set to 800X600, I use 1280x1024
Slashdot Mirror
Stock splits can and often do increse an investor's net value, because the reduced per stock price allows others to buy in, I'm sure that a lot of people find Google's stock price out of reach, but their stock desirable, I couldn't buy a block of google at 311.37, but at 45.00 I'd be very tempted and a 10:1 split would probably stablize about there.
I think he meant for the first time ever since they were founded in the 80's
WOW that was amazing, looked like laser-weld hitting a silver alloy! We should have saw it coming carbon is a pretty good absorber of photons, hit it with photons at 5500K the energy is either going to have to conduct away or radiate away. I wonder if they'll find that it takes a certain intensity of light to trigger an explosion, or if single walled carbon nano-tube just "evaporate" under normal room lights and nobody ever noticed.
Try holding one in your hand at 20,000 feet durring a thunderstorm. A thunder head is positivly charged, it induces a tremendous negative charge in the earth below, a lightning rod near the ground allows the charge to bleed off into the air through point effect, this is nothing like what would happen if you place a conductive cable from the earth to a point in space, even a near strike of lightning would induce horrendous currents in the cable through induction.
Better yet try convicing a congress-critter and 200 million taxpayer the your proposed a multi-billion dollar project will not go poof in the first tropical storm
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Description:
a) Electrical conductivity -- probably the best conductor of electricity on a nanoscale level that can ever be possible. Reade Advanced Materials
air builds up static charges on the order of 1KV/ft, think about one of these not quite in the middle of a cat5 hurricane!
That why the custer-dudes buy the hardware last.
more than likely they've charted out projected number of teraflop they need, the rate available teraflops/dollar increase and advantages in solution time in strating earlyier with slow equipment vs. later with faster and pretty well know the optimum time to buy. That's usualy just before the next big tech advance makes what they just bought almost obsolete, and drops the price by a factor of ten just like the rest of us do.
I see several big problems (not counting the "new slashdot" some how mangeling the markup tags)
first to make the cable, you have too start in space naturaly, and as you make it, to get the cable to land at the cable connection on the ground, its center of gravity has to be in geo-syncronous orbit, which means the middle of the cable! so you have to make the cable twice as long as you need.
secondly the cable is supposed to be made out of carbon fiber nano-tubes. these fibers are insanely conductive and flamable, think of it as a lightning rod, 44,960 miles tall!
third the cable has to be connect at the earth's equator, a band of lattitude not known for it's geo-political stability
Forth the orbiting satelites will have to avoid the cable and all the orbiting space-junk cleaned up
the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
(I would suggest that indexing, is a form of research, the law also considers the following)
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (note the law does not say it must be non-commercial)
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (they are books)
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (showing less than a page out of a book)
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
(google
scans for free,
indexes for free,
links to the publishers website for free,
pays commisions to the rights holder for clicks on competitor's ads for free,
google makes many books that would otherwise not be noticed findable so they are increasing the market, and all the free services provided by google definately increase the value significantly)
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Google stated mission is to make a "significant portion of the world's knowlege available to a signicant portion of the world's population"
and they seem to be doing this with religious zeal while presenting everybody a win-win situation.
If Google is screwing the copyright owners by doing all this, I wish they would screw me too!
There are accretion disks arround massive objects the are heated until glowing that would look like what your describing, but more technicaly a star is heated by nuclear fussion and it's hard to immagine conditions that extreme to allow an orbiting gass ring to acheive enough presure to enable fusion
Retired Army-National guard here, sometimes you just have to do what is right and worry about taking the burn later. Way to little can-do and way to much cover-your-ass involved with katrina. It boggles my mind that people with resources were stopped from helping, we were always taught "lead, follow or get the hell out of the way"
If the radius of the event horizon was big enough, tidal forces would be minimal, as tidal force is actualy the delta-G at two points such as your head and feet. So if the event horizon is big enough, you could "fall" into a black hole and survive becuase there wouldn't be enough tidal forces to hurt you. Now because time dilation is infinite at the event horizon, you'd never even get to the event horizon so getting past it would be out of the question.
I guess that means that you can't fall into a black-hole, you an just get really close unless you had no mass. Getting all the mass sucked out of your matter would probably hurt alot.
So when the star impacts with Earth, the politicians will be safe in some space pod on the far side of the moon.
I hope you took some stupid pills this morning, because if you thought being on the far side of the MOON would be any help to you if a STAR hit the EARTH with your native intelligence; your going to have some serious life-issues when you move out of your mother's basement!
If memory serves me correctly Giuliani was asking the Governor to scramble F16's to patrol the airspce over the city between the first impact and the second.
The real problem was not that fascist response of FEMA, but the lack of a fascist response. They should have rolled in and said evacuate the city now or go to meet the president at gitmo, we'll escort you there now.
It's a constitional thing concerning a navigatable waterway used in insterstate transportation. Another problem is the constitional prohibition on fund the army for more than (I think) three years; if it were under the navy, or tranportation then congress could fund the 50 year project for 50 years rather than 3 year increments. Usualy it's eassier to get funded once, when the project is new and interesting and once funded it's less likely to get cut; the current system alows congress to quietly just not renew funding once the project is old and boreing.
They are argueing apples and oranges;
Symantec's report basicaly says the arithmatic sum of reported bugs is greater for mozilla and mozilla says the reported bugs multilpied by the time to fix raised to the power of severity is greater for mozzila.
I've found the degree of effective security for mozilla in the hands of my definition of typical user to be more than in IE, your definition of typical user will not be the same as mine. If you compare an astute, seasoned power-user using IE with a clueless arrogent fucktard on mozilla, IE will have more effective security.
IANAL but having a book implies a liciense from the copyright holder to have that book. If the libararies are contracted with google, who is provide a archival back-up of a legaly owned and liciensed book, I think this suit could prove very interesting
if they publish anything without the explicit permission is not equal to copyright law says that a small portion of a work may be copied
What Google is doing actualy is probably wrong, because they are copying the content of an entire work yet I'm sure that when it gets to court they'll get all weaselly and say they didn't copy the bank pages or some silly other technicality that lawyers are so fond of.
Fuck that burn then damn bitches to the ground, I can't tell you how much those free-loading hippie book loaning pinko-faggots in libaraies piss me off, letting people read books for free is the most moraly reprehensible thing I can think of! We should lock them up with the pedophiles.
Tell you what cowboy, if reading 20 pages of a book kills your profits, somebody should put a bullet in that lame horse's head. If publishers had a clue, and pulled their heads out of their asses, they'd be scanning their own books after 2nd run and giving it to google and buying an ad to their own site's ebook version of the whole thing.
Google is clearly in the wrong if they publish anything without the explicit permission of any rights-holders in the domain of said publishing
you are wrong and anyone who uses a phrase like the explicit permission of any rights-holders in the domain of said publishing knows enough case law to prove it off the top of their heads! +5, Interesting for a astro-turffer, givme a break
A friend brought over a "camcordered" movie, the quality was pathetic, if the movie itseld wasn't pathetic, I would have rented a viewable copy.
I rather doubt that completely eliminating online downloading is going to even a dent in movie piracy. From what I've seen the majority of it is burnt DVDs physical passed amongst friends
emacswiki is way cool thanks
Intersting the author appears to be presenting the "atheist" point of view, into a subject the stirs religious rants amongst the editor's loyalist.
What I'd like to find and or write is a good PHP/HTML mode for emacs, or even a CPAN/CTAN clone for emacs modes and scripts.
I had an uncle that beef farmed back a while before anyone thought about hormone accelerated, antibotic augmented "certified angus" meat eating abominations that passes for beef nowadays; he actualy wept when he sent one off to be slaughtered, but it was some seriously good eating meat.
With blood fed calves, and meat feed cattle, we might as well be eating cats. I could never figure out why women like cats so much, seems like if you took every masculine charecteristic that women hate, multiply it by 10 would'd have a cat's personality.
Some sites are coded in such a way that text resizing doesn't work in IE.
Specifying font sizes is a bad thing to do accesability-wise, using relative sizing is much easier for most of us. also not everyone has video resolution set to 800X600, I use 1280x1024