Giving money to NASA doesn't get a representative re-elected but it can affects things that can.
IANAL but the way I understand it is a privated citizen or corporation can donate money to a government project and a portion of that donation is either a tax credit or a tax deduction. When this is done properly that money is ear-marked for that project's budget and can't be used for anything else. So if it's deductable, and your at the 17% bracket, your congress-critter just got 17% of your donation removed from the funds available to his pork-barrel prodject!
If a print letter is more impressive to your congress critter than an Email, imagine how impressed he/she'll be when you've cut a check! Next you want to tell him/her, that your descressionary funds have been reduced due to your donation to NASA and therefore he will'not be getting a campain contribution from you this year! Additionaly you can tell him that we've invested 30 years into the voyager projects and throwing this a way, just when we about to get the next batch of intersting data, will set us back at least a century; so if this isn't rectified not only will he not get a campain contribution, neither will his children, grand childern, or great-grand children!
I didn't think of it that way at the time, but it might not be an inacurate discription in a more literal manner. Of course I don't have any intention of it being a continuing activity, his post just pushed several of my hot-buttons and just modding him down in an anonymous manner was unsatisfing. I'm wondering what will happen in meta-moderation so far nothing
I once servered with a Warrent Officer who "civivian" job was military liason offer to Canadian Defense contractors in Canada. He explained to me that often the price of the parts was a fraction of the cost of the entire end item such that the toal cost of the parts might be 150% of the cost of the whole thing, so when the price of a toilet seat seems outragious, it realy meant that it made parts that were actualy likely to be needed was less.
That brass jammer was more likely berilium (which looks like brass), and its manufacture involved an extremely toxic metal, specialy installed saftey equipment and cradle to grave accounting. Sometimes there are other reasons, have a berilium hammer priced high also means the it's less likely to be lost or stolen, only to be smelted down to make a neutron reflector in an atomic bomb by some bad-guys.
that department will be clear of political influences, That's a very romantic idea, one I'm sure is based on the perception the scientists are annointed with a special ability to rise above personal agendas, politics and all of the other bullshit we mere mortals must endure. But the simple fact is there are no witch-doctors shaking their beads and rattles, secret incantations or other unseen rites that occure when a person gets that Ph.D. tacked on to the end of their name.
Clear of political influences, They can't even do that with the present level of government involvement, why do you think having a greater hand in funding of publication efforts, would decrease capricious market forces. Wouldn't the "Department of Science" become the capricious market forces? It's a credit to the scientific community that things are running as well as they are, and I personaly feel that adding more transperency to the present process is preferable to adding an other layer of smoke and mirrors.
If a professional journal wants to do all of these value added services for their paid subscribers, I see no reason to interfere. If the Funding agencies, demand that papers be published in a public access mode, I see no reason to prevent authors from self-publishing their articles in a rougher format, perhaps grammer/spelling editied by students in journalism 101. I'd also have no problem with IEEE journal subscribers getting downloads of articles at full throtle, members limited to 150 Kb/s and the non-members getting a 23KB/s limit, left over bandwidth allowing.
A lot of Linux Distros are doing fine in a free/paid environment? The universities and Research institutes are definately using published research for marketing, so they actualy have a vested interest in quality.
I'm not sure that Google realy did break any rules real or implied, Googling for traffic estimates, does place them on the front page, it lists them in the sixth listing, where as over at MSN
the same query doesn't bring up the page after 15 pages. So asuming that google doesn't care about their rakings on their own search engine as they could buy an adword pretty cheaply from themselves; it doesn't seem to be helping them to bring in viewers from competeing search engines.
your post in Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms (#11875966) Look, I know exactly two things about Indians: They stole our tech jobs and they constantly try to screw over hard working gambling-addicted Americans by building casinos on their reservations was the most clueless, stupid and racist thing I've ever had the privalage of modding flamebait -1 in many years!
just because it can survive without immediately appearent damage in a survivial-at-all-costs mode doesn't mean there isn't cardiac, renal and hepatic damage occuring, which will limit long-term health. If you are going to argue against the status quo, you assume the burden of proof; not me. Just becuase Atkins has been selling blue-smoke and mirrors for 30 years doesn't make him right.
The Atkins is unhealthy, period; there is no way arround the fact that the body needs carbs to function properly, and just because it can survive without immediately appearent damage in a survivial-at-all-costs mode doesn't mean there isn't cardiac, renal and hepatic damage occuring, which will limit long-term health. Think about Diabetics frequently slide into and out of ketosis, and research is showing they diabetics even with normal blood sugars and cholesterol scores are more likely to have heart disease. Diabetics have a condition where the cells in their bodies cannot get enough glucose from the blood stream, Atkins simulates this condition rather well, by not have glucose in the blood to start with.
If you want to lose weight, a volumetric approach is much heathier, simple eat a balanced veriety foods that have the least calories per gram of food. The weight will drop slowly, in a sustainable healthy manner. you didn't get fat overnight, and you will not get fit over night either.
Internet providers in Utah must offer their customers a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges.
1. let state pass stupid, vague law 2. develope a few tweeks to linux based router so it pulls its block-list from ISP 3. rent for 3 times an resonable amount 4. profit! The easiest thing might be for ISPs to bundle a version of NetNanny Actualy the easiest thing to do is unplug the computer, while the law say they must block the listed sites, severing the connection would do that. Next would be to hand edit the hosts file, to point black-balled url to a 404 error page! NetNanny doesn't seem to have a *nix version.
I suspect that blocking in Utah will be a premium service, not included in the ISP's basic package.
At least these guys could belly-up-to-the-bar and release their modifications to the GPL'ed software they used, especialy considering that SELinux is GPL'd and is basicaly a NSA project, and Larry Wall started perl developement while at the NSA. All uber-secret stuff. Kind of like playing I'll show you mine if you'll show me your's and chickening out after you got a peek.
I wrote a perl script to do this basicaly it read in the file name and fed it to imageMagik, print a previous frame at 25%, the current image at 50%, the next image at 25%, compost the 3 then move on to the next frame. It didn't work to badly as an experiment proof-of-concept kind of a thing.
My intention was to use this as a base for an automated edit program where i could scan the frames manualy, pick a frame that needed correction, do the correction manualy and record the results. This would build into an edit script that ran automaticaly. Unfortunatly, on my old dinosuar of a computer it took 3 seconds to process each frame and I lost interest.
Cinepaint is pretty cool, I've found the flip-book feature really handy, I think they are still in a massive re-write though, they are dropping GTK in favor of FLTK. This should be a good thing if it results in the processing code being seperated form the UI code, which will make it easier to automate the code with scripts; and a bad thing if the work-load kills the project.
1. Scan the film to individual images, preferably at 32 bits per color, Kodak's Cineon format will handle this or ILM's OpenEXR format (it's open source too). 2. Load frames onto harddisk 3. Edit each frame gamma, color corection, and dust-busting that's 24 frames per second, that's a lot of frames for a 30 minutes of film. convert to a color-dept for encoding, then encoding/ 4 do the menues 5 burn the DvD in short a lot of work take a look at Cinepaint for the frame editing software.
400 Hz is/was used in a lot of our misslie/radar systems too. transformers are much smaller and lighter at 400Hz; but it also pickes up a lot af stray inductance problems too. We had to roll our excess power cables in a figure 8 pattern. If you have to hump equipment on your back or in aircraft it's the way to go. My right ear has a hearing lose at 400Hz from tranformer hum.
In the Army we used DC power for some applications, it's an nasty problematic way of distributing power and tends to be unreliable, if at all possible avoid it. If you are wondering why, it reinforces the fact you don't know enough about real-world power distribution to do it with out it cause more problems than it creates. DC is dangerous, if you get shocked by it it holds on to you more, there is no pauses in the current to allow you to get off the conductor. DC is dangerous, generaly it needs much more current for a give power because the voltage is lower, short curcuits tend to arc-weld together; Avoid DC power distribution when ever possible.
A lot of Military/aviation power runs at 400Hz, smaller lighter transformers work at the higher frequencies and the AC ripple is easier to filter. the disadvantage is the excess cable should be figure 8ed so the inductive load of the two coils of cable cancel out. Also the transformer hum has caused me to lose the ability to hear the musical note A which is at 440 Hz.
Personaly I think Edison's predjudice again AC came from the on a practical incandesent light bulb. One of the big problems was finding a material that didn't experience fatigue failure; AC power causes a light bulbs filament to vibrate, leading to mechanical fatigue.
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sorry in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217, the only thing that renders is the word outline, everything else is blank frames, with javascript like
I'd say its pretty windows-centric; and doesn't handle unanticipated user input gracefully.
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I've always been extremely suspious of the statisticaly based studies, primarily because they tend to ignore causality; it one thing to say that good engineers, with a proven track record of outputing quality, on-time, under-budget products use method A, B, and C; it's something else to say that using method A,B, and C will product Quality, on-time under-budget projects, even with good engineers in a different environment.
Bill Gates recieving such an honour by riding the coat-tails of an entire corporation does seem to dilute the prestige of the honor a bit doesn't it. Especialy considering they left Alan Turing to rot amidst charges of homosexuality, after doing as much as any single person to save the world as we know it, and basicaly founding the very industry gates was honored for advancing.
It's been a while since I looked into it, and I realize that each state has regulatories authority, but how do they decide when your big enough, three consecutive month of zero or less consumption or something?
Does it seem to you that Windows admins tend to think more of administering a server or desktop rather than the broader view of administering a system. I tend to think more systematicaly myself, and am comforatble pulling data out of a MySQL table, doing a little massageing in Perl, sticking the data into a LaTeX document and piping the whole thing to lpr, but the non-systemic thinkers tend to open an integrated app and want it all done for them or else say its impossible.
I'm running XP SP1... I do update with security patches often
Seems to me that if your updating, then you've got SP2 installed already; I do and I got XP plain originaly, SP1 and SP2 came in via automatic update.
If you're realy running XP SP1 and haven't been compromised, I'll wager that you're on a dial-up connection, a broadband connected 'puter is a much more inviting target. Get as comcast IP address for a while the chatter on the logs will blow you away, scans from everywhere.
The electric utilities realy don't care if you generate your own electricity or not. A friend of mine is a power station operator at a local paper plant, i.e. that station is capable of and frequently does generate the plant's entire electrical needs. Do to environmental considerations, there are systems in the plant that absolutly can not lose power, so their is a stand-by connection to the utility grid. The cost of maintaining the stand-by connection's infrasturcture, the sub-station and transformers and lines, exceeds the cost of the electricity it deliver; the utility makes a profit even if they don't sell any electricity. Durring the day, the electricity cost's are high, and it cheaper to make their own, at night it's cheaper to buy from the utility. Either way, the cost of bringing the station online, exceeds the cost savings of shutting down durring a portion of the day by a slight amount so effectively they pay the utility for power they generate.
In the early days of consumer self-generation, the electric meters on your house, recorded the power flow in both directions, so that a residential customer both bought and sold power at retail price, now however if the utility know your capable of self-generation you get a different electric meter so that you buy at retail price, but sell at wholesale price. Again either way the utility makes money and therefore no need for a conspiracy.
Not necessarily, fair-market value, and make a profit in the US Market after amortizing the FDA approval processjust in the US market are two very different things. Consider that most other countries just rubber-stamp their approval after the FDA has approved it, efectively means the americans are paying the drug companies cost of approval, and the administrative costs of the FDA approval for most of the world. It's like the Japanese companies that say they arn't dumping in the USA because their marginal profits are positive, and the US companies saying they are dumping because their average profit would be negative at a particualr price.
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Giving money to NASA doesn't get a representative re-elected but it can affects things that can.
IANAL but the way I understand it is a privated citizen or corporation can donate money to a government project and a portion of that donation is either a tax credit or a tax deduction. When this is done properly that money is ear-marked for that project's budget and can't be used for anything else. So if it's deductable, and your at the 17% bracket, your congress-critter just got 17% of your donation removed from the funds available to his pork-barrel prodject!
If a print letter is more impressive to your congress critter than an Email, imagine how impressed he/she'll be when you've cut a check! Next you want to tell him/her, that your descressionary funds have been reduced due to your donation to NASA and therefore he will'not be getting a campain contribution from you this year! Additionaly you can tell him that we've invested 30 years into the voyager projects and throwing this a way, just when we about to get the next batch of intersting data, will set us back at least a century; so if this isn't rectified not only will he not get a campain contribution, neither will his children, grand childern, or great-grand children!
I didn't think of it that way at the time, but it might not be an inacurate discription in a more literal manner. Of course I don't have any intention of it being a continuing activity, his post just pushed several of my hot-buttons and just modding him down in an anonymous manner was unsatisfing. I'm wondering what will happen in meta-moderation so far nothing
I once servered with a Warrent Officer who "civivian" job was military liason offer to Canadian Defense contractors in Canada. He explained to me that often the price of the parts was a fraction of the cost of the entire end item such that the toal cost of the parts might be 150% of the cost of the whole thing, so when the price of a toilet seat seems outragious, it realy meant that it made parts that were actualy likely to be needed was less.
That brass jammer was more likely berilium (which looks like brass), and its manufacture involved an extremely toxic metal, specialy installed saftey equipment and cradle to grave accounting. Sometimes there are other reasons, have a berilium hammer priced high also means the it's less likely to be lost or stolen, only to be smelted down to make a neutron reflector in an atomic bomb by some bad-guys.
that department will be clear of political influences,
That's a very romantic idea, one I'm sure is based on the perception the scientists are annointed with a special ability to rise above personal agendas, politics and all of the other bullshit we mere mortals must endure. But the simple fact is there are no witch-doctors shaking their beads and rattles, secret incantations or other unseen rites that occure when a person gets that Ph.D. tacked on to the end of their name.
Clear of political influences, They can't even do that with the present level of government involvement, why do you think having a greater hand in funding of publication efforts, would decrease capricious market forces. Wouldn't the "Department of Science" become the capricious market forces? It's a credit to the scientific community that things are running as well as they are, and I personaly feel that adding more transperency to the present process is preferable to adding an other layer of smoke and mirrors.
If a professional journal wants to do all of these value added services for their paid subscribers, I see no reason to interfere. If the Funding agencies, demand that papers be published in a public access mode, I see no reason to prevent authors from self-publishing their articles in a rougher format, perhaps grammer/spelling editied by students in journalism 101. I'd also have no problem with IEEE journal subscribers getting downloads of articles at full throtle, members limited to 150 Kb/s and the non-members getting a 23KB/s limit, left over bandwidth allowing.
A lot of Linux Distros are doing fine in a free/paid environment? The universities and Research institutes are definately using published research for marketing, so they actualy have a vested interest in quality.
I'm not sure that Google realy did break any rules real or implied, Googling for traffic estimates, does place them on the front page, it lists them in the sixth listing, where as over at MSN
the same query doesn't bring up the page after 15 pages. So asuming that google doesn't care about their rakings on their own search engine as they could buy an adword pretty cheaply from themselves; it doesn't seem to be helping them to bring in viewers from competeing search engines.
your post in Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms (#11875966) Look, I know exactly two things about Indians: They stole our tech jobs and they constantly try to screw over hard working gambling-addicted Americans by building casinos on their reservations
was the most clueless, stupid and racist thing I've ever had the privalage of modding flamebait -1 in many years!
just because it can survive without immediately appearent damage in a survivial-at-all-costs mode doesn't mean there isn't cardiac, renal and hepatic damage occuring, which will limit long-term health. If you are going to argue against the status quo, you assume the burden of proof; not me. Just becuase Atkins has been selling blue-smoke and mirrors for 30 years doesn't make him right.
The Atkins is unhealthy, period; there is no way arround the fact that the body needs carbs to function properly, and just because it can survive without immediately appearent damage in a survivial-at-all-costs mode doesn't mean there isn't cardiac, renal and hepatic damage occuring, which will limit long-term health. Think about Diabetics frequently slide into and out of ketosis, and research is showing they diabetics even with normal blood sugars and cholesterol scores are more likely to have heart disease. Diabetics have a condition where the cells in their bodies cannot get enough glucose from the blood stream, Atkins simulates this condition rather well, by not have glucose in the blood to start with.
If you want to lose weight, a volumetric approach is much heathier, simple eat a balanced veriety foods that have the least calories per gram of food. The weight will drop slowly, in a sustainable healthy manner. you didn't get fat overnight, and you will not get fit over night either.
Internet providers in Utah must offer their customers a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges.
1. let state pass stupid, vague law
2. develope a few tweeks to linux based router so it pulls its block-list from ISP
3. rent for 3 times an resonable amount
4. profit!
The easiest thing might be for ISPs to bundle a version of NetNanny Actualy the easiest thing to do is unplug the computer, while the law say they must block the listed sites, severing the connection would do that. Next would be to hand edit the hosts file, to point black-balled url to a 404 error page! NetNanny doesn't seem to have a *nix version.
I suspect that blocking in Utah will be a premium service, not included in the ISP's basic package.
At least these guys could belly-up-to-the-bar and release their modifications to the GPL'ed software they used, especialy considering that SELinux is GPL'd and is basicaly a NSA project, and Larry Wall started perl developement while at the NSA. All uber-secret stuff. Kind of like playing I'll show you mine if you'll show me your's and chickening out after you got a peek.
I wrote a perl script to do this basicaly it read in the file name and fed it to imageMagik, print a previous frame at 25%, the current image at 50%, the next image at 25%, compost the 3 then move on to the next frame. It didn't work to badly as an experiment proof-of-concept kind of a thing.
My intention was to use this as a base for an automated edit program where i could scan the frames manualy, pick a frame that needed correction, do the correction manualy and record the results. This would build into an edit script that ran automaticaly. Unfortunatly, on my old dinosuar of a computer it took 3 seconds to process each frame and I lost interest.
Cinepaint is pretty cool, I've found the flip-book feature really handy, I think they are still in a massive re-write though, they are dropping GTK in favor of FLTK. This should be a good thing if it results in the processing code being seperated form the UI code, which will make it easier to automate the code with scripts; and a bad thing if the work-load kills the project.
1. Scan the film to individual images, preferably at 32 bits per color, Kodak's Cineon format will handle this or ILM's OpenEXR format (it's open source too).
2. Load frames onto harddisk
3. Edit each frame gamma, color corection, and dust-busting that's 24 frames per second, that's a lot of frames for a 30 minutes of film.
convert to a color-dept for encoding, then encoding/
4 do the menues
5 burn the DvD
in short a lot of work take a look at Cinepaint for the frame editing software.
400 Hz is/was used in a lot of our misslie/radar systems too. transformers are much smaller and lighter at 400Hz; but it also pickes up a lot af stray inductance problems too. We had to roll our excess power cables in a figure 8 pattern. If you have to hump equipment on your back or in aircraft it's the way to go. My right ear has a hearing lose at 400Hz from tranformer hum.
In the Army we used DC power for some applications, it's an nasty problematic way of distributing power and tends to be unreliable, if at all possible avoid it. If you are wondering why, it reinforces the fact you don't know enough about real-world power distribution to do it with out it cause more problems than it creates.
DC is dangerous, if you get shocked by it it holds on to you more, there is no pauses in the current to allow you to get off the conductor. DC is dangerous, generaly it needs much more current for a give power because the voltage is lower, short curcuits tend to arc-weld together; Avoid DC power distribution when ever possible.
A lot of Military/aviation power runs at 400Hz, smaller lighter transformers work at the higher frequencies and the AC ripple is easier to filter. the disadvantage is the excess cable should be figure 8ed so the inductive load of the two coils of cable cancel out. Also the transformer hum has caused me to lose the ability to hear the musical note A which is at 440 Hz.
Personaly I think Edison's predjudice again AC came from the on a practical incandesent light bulb. One of the big problems was finding a material that didn't experience fatigue failure; AC power causes a light bulbs filament to vibrate, leading to mechanical fatigue.
I've always been extremely suspious of the statisticaly based studies, primarily because they tend to ignore causality; it one thing to say that good engineers, with a proven track record of outputing quality, on-time, under-budget products use method A, B, and C; it's something else to say that using method A,B, and C will product Quality, on-time under-budget projects, even with good engineers in a different environment.
Bill Gates recieving such an honour by riding the coat-tails of an entire corporation does seem to dilute the prestige of the honor a bit doesn't it. Especialy considering they left Alan Turing to rot amidst charges of homosexuality, after doing as much as any single person to save the world as we know it, and basicaly founding the very industry gates was honored for advancing.
It's been a while since I looked into it, and I realize that each state has regulatories authority, but how do they decide when your big enough, three consecutive month of zero or less consumption or something?
Does it seem to you that Windows admins tend to think more of administering a server or desktop rather than the broader view of administering a system. I tend to think more systematicaly myself, and am comforatble pulling data out of a MySQL table, doing a little massageing in Perl, sticking the data into a LaTeX document and piping the whole thing to lpr, but the non-systemic thinkers tend to open an integrated app and want it all done for them or else say its impossible.
I'm running XP SP1... I do update with security patches often
Seems to me that if your updating, then you've got SP2 installed already; I do and I got XP plain originaly, SP1 and SP2 came in via automatic update.
If you're realy running XP SP1 and haven't been compromised, I'll wager that you're on a dial-up connection, a broadband connected 'puter is a much more inviting target. Get as comcast IP address for a while the chatter on the logs will blow you away, scans from everywhere.
The electric utilities realy don't care if you generate your own electricity or not. A friend of mine is a power station operator at a local paper plant, i.e. that station is capable of and frequently does generate the plant's entire electrical needs. Do to environmental considerations, there are systems in the plant that absolutly can not lose power, so their is a stand-by connection to the utility grid. The cost of maintaining the stand-by connection's infrasturcture, the sub-station and transformers and lines, exceeds the cost of the electricity it deliver; the utility makes a profit even if they don't sell any electricity. Durring the day, the electricity cost's are high, and it cheaper to make their own, at night it's cheaper to buy from the utility. Either way, the cost of bringing the station online, exceeds the cost savings of shutting down durring a portion of the day by a slight amount so effectively they pay the utility for power they generate.
In the early days of consumer self-generation, the electric meters on your house, recorded the power flow in both directions, so that a residential customer both bought and sold power at retail price, now however if the utility know your capable of self-generation you get a different electric meter so that you buy at retail price, but sell at wholesale price. Again either way the utility makes money and therefore no need for a conspiracy.
Not necessarily, fair-market value, and make a profit in the US Market after amortizing the FDA approval processjust in the US market are two very different things. Consider that most other countries just rubber-stamp their approval after the FDA has approved it, efectively means the americans are paying the drug companies cost of approval, and the administrative costs of the FDA approval for most of the world.
It's like the Japanese companies that say they arn't dumping in the USA because their marginal profits are positive, and the US companies saying they are dumping because their average profit would be negative at a particualr price.